Giuseppe Fagnani, 24 Dec 1819 - 22 May 1873 Search this
Sitter:
Eleazar Williams, c. 1789 - 28 Aug 1858 Search this
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
75.5cm x 63cm (29 3/4" x 24 13/16"), Accurate
Type:
Painting
Date:
1853
Provenance:
Eleanor Smith [Mrs. Lawrence M.C. Smith], Philadelphia; gift 1975 to NPG
Appears to be the original for an engraved frontispiece titled “The Rev. Eleazar Williams, from a Portrait by the Chevalier Fagnani,” in John H. Hanson, The Lost Prince: Facts Tending to Prove the Identity of Louis the Seventeenth of France, and The Rev. Eleazar Williams, Missionary Among the Indians of North America., Putnam 1854.
Possibly the picture listed in Thomas B. Clark, Early American Portraits Collected by Mr. Thomas B. Clarke, American Art Galleries 1919, no. 4, by Charles Loring Elliott, “Eleazar Williams, The “Lost Dauphin” Louis XVII?”. Possibly the picture sold by Samuel T. Freeman, Philadelphia, 1950, no. 477 [Eleazar Williams by Charles Loring Elliott. Exhibition of American Portraits, Collection of John Frederick Lewis [Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1934], no. 126. Label on stretcher confirms no. 126.
