Joseph DeCamp 1907 Oil Painting "Portrait of Frederick Gilbert"
Item Details
Joseph DeCamp (American; 1858 – 1923)
Portrait of Frederick Gilbert, 1907
Oil on canvas
Signed to lower left
Dated and inscribed to upper left “To my friend / Mrs. Gilbert”
Frank. W. Bayley frame label to verso
An oil painting on canvas titled Portrait of Frederick Gilbert by celebrated American artist Joseph Decamp (1858 – 1923), dated 1907. This half-body portrait features a three-quarter view of an older man with his arms crossed, gazing at the viewer with a serious expression on his face. The painting is signed to the lower left and dated to the upper left. A dedication to the sitter’s wife is inscribed to the upper left, reading ‘To my friend / Mrs. Gilbert’. The painting is presented in a Frank W. Bayley gilt and gesso frame with elaborate floral molding. A descriptive label and a frame label are present to the verso.
This work was previously exhibited at the Cincinnati Art Museum and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1908. The sitter was the brother-in-law of Cincinnati businessman Albert Hayden Chatfield, another subject painted by DeCamp and strong advocate of the arts who established a studio for the artist in Camden, Maine. Less than 100 paintings by DeCamp are known to exist today, over a third of which are housed in museum collections, making this composition a rare example of his in the market.
Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Joseph Rodefer DeCamp was a lifelong friend and student of Frank Duveneck (1848-1919) at the Munich Academy. As a preeminent American portraitist, he was a leading member of the Boston School of Painting; but perhaps most notably, DeCamp is among the original Ten American Painters, a group of American artists formed in 1898, which included Frank W. Benson, Thomas Wilmer Dewing, Childe Hassam, Willard Leroy Metcalf, Robert Reid, Edward Simmons, Edmund C. Tarbell, J. Alden Weir, and John Henry Twachtman (later replaced by William Merritt Chase after his death). Famed individuals painted by the artist include President Theodore Roosevelt, Frank Duveneck, and Horace Howard Furness, to name a few. DeCamp’s work has been collected and exhibited by numerous art institutions such as the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Cincinnati Art Museum; and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, among many others.
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Condition
- color fading; small spots of paint loss to lower left; drip varnish stains present to central right area; faint scratch marks scattered throughout; craquelure throughout; some wear to frame includes small chips, stains, scratches, and finish loss scattered throughout; cracks present to four corners of frame.
Dimensions
- measurement of frame; canvas size measures approximately 25.25" W x 30.25" H.
Item #
18DCC800-404
