Portrait of a Boy

Artist Jacob Marling American, 1774–1833

Dateafter 1810

MediumOil on canvas, mounted on wood

Dimensions26 x 22 in. (66 x 55.9 cm)
Frame: 34 x 30 in. (86.4 x 76.2 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina

Object number61.1.8

On View

Not on view

Provenance**Created United States, after 1810. Sold to NCMA, 1961.Published References"Acquisitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 4, nos. 2 and 3 (Winter-Spring 1964), noted 7, listed 64.

Jacob Marling: Retrospective Exhibition (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1964), cat. no. 33.

American Paintings to 1900: Catalogue of Paintings, Vol. 1, 2nd ed (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1966), no. 37, illus. (b-w).

Edgar Peters Bowron, ed. Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: Published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (b-w) 285.

Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Jacob Marling: Retrospective Exhibition," March 1-April 5, 1964, cat. no. 33.

Fayetteville, NC, Fayetteville Museum of Art, May 1-30, 1978.

Fayetteville, NC, Fayetteville Museum of Art, "American Costume in Painting," August 28-September 24, 1979

Fayetteville, NC, Fayetteville Museum of Art, "Bicentennial/Bicentennial: American Paintings and Audubon Prints from the NCMA," October 29-December 3, 1989.

Lexington, NC, Davidson County Art Guild, "American Portraits and Landscapes from the NCMA," April 2-30, 1992 (Outreach Exhibition).

Wilmington, NC, Louise Wells Cameron Art Museum, to be displayed with the permanent collection as part of the inaugural exhibition, April 21, 2002 – March 30, 2003. Object Rights Statement

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