Name: John Bernard Whittaker (1836-1926)
Brand: The Lesson
Price: 40000.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

John Bernard Whittaker (1836-1926)
The Lesson
oil on canvas
31 x 42 in. (78.7 x 106.7 cm.)
Painted circa 1871-72.

John Ewart Tousey, New York, the sitter.
Private collection, by descent.
Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc., New York.
Acquired by the late owner from the above, 1986.

"Art Notes," Brooklyn Daily Eagle, January 11, 1872, p. 2.
"New Yorkers at Home," Antiques, January 1966, p. 109, illustrated.
C.S. Marlor, John Bernard Whittaker: 1836-1926, Garden City, New York, 1968, p. 6.
C.S. Marlor, "John Whittaker, Brooklyn Artist," Antiques, November 1971, p. 776, illustrated.
M. Praz, Conversation Pieces: A Survey of the Informal Group Portrait in Europe and American, University Park, Pennsylvania, 1971, pp. 87, 242, no. 246, illustrated.
E.C. Parry III, "Some Distant Relations and American Cousins of Thomas Eakins's Children at Play," The American Art Journal, XVIII, p. 36, no. 2, fig. 15, illustrated.

Brooklyn, New York, Brooklyn Art Association, March 1872, no. 274.
New York, National Academy of Design, 1872, no. 288.
New York, Portaits, Inc., The Family 1847-1947, 1947.
New York, Wildenstein Galleries, Three Hundred Years of New York City Families, January 12-29, 1966, p. 11, no. 27, illustrated.
Brooklyn, New York, Adelphi University, Library, Exhibition of Paintings by John B. Whittaker: 1836-1926, May 20-June 10, 1968, no. 11.
Brooklyn, New York, The Museum of the Borough of Brooklyn, Now Reposing in Greed-Wood Cemetery, April 9-May 20, 1986, no. 63.
New York, New-York Historical Society, John Rogers: American Stories, November 9, 2012-February 18, 2013.

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