George Lafayette Clough Portrait Oil Painting of a Civil War Captain, 1872

Item Details

George Lafayette Clough (New York, 1824-1901)
Untitled (Portrait of a Civil War Captain), 1872
Oil painting on canvas
Signed to the lower left

George Lafayette Clough was born in Auburn, New York, and was known as a Hudson River School painter. He was raised without a fatherly influence, had very little formal education, was employed at the age of 10 and was painting by 15. His first painterly mentor was portraitist Randall Palmer. Clough was a member of the Brooklyn Brush and Palette Club. He showed his work regularly at the National Academy, Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Brooklyn Art Association, Boston Art Club, and The Cosmopolitan Art Association among others. Clough’s works are represented in the collections of numerous prestigious institutions, including Whitney Museum of American Art; Adirondack Museum; Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh/Carnegie Institute; The Brooklyn Museum of Art; Mobile Museum of Art; and The Canton Museum of Art, among others.

Condition

- heavy wear and denting to edges of frame; surface wear present to painting; dust and accretions present to painting and frame; loss of paint throughout frame; cracking to inner edges of frame.

Dimensions

- measures frame; visible image measures 12.75" W x 17.25" H.

Item #

ITMG344449