The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 7, 2023

Portrait of an "Old Sea Captain"

19th century

Samuel Isham

(American, 1855–1914)

America, 19th century

Oil on canvas

Unframed: 73.3 x 59.4 cm (28 7/8 x 23 3/8 in.)

Gift of Mrs. Henry Osborn Taylor 1915.87

Location

not on view

Provenance
Samuel Isham (Mrs. Henry Osborn Taylor is the sister of the artist)
Citations
Chong, Alan. European & American Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993. Reproduced: p. 114
Cleveland Museum of Art. "A Check List: American Paintings and Water Colors of the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Early Twentieth Centuries in The Cleveland Museum of Art." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art. 60:1 (January, 1973). pp. 1-36. Mentioned: p. 29, fig. 109
"The Collection of Paintings." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 2, no. 2 (1915): 4-5. Mentioned: p. 5 www.jstor.org
Exhibition history

Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Inaugural Exhibition (6 June-20 September 1916), cat. no. 19, listed p. 127, not illus.

Inaugural Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (co-organizer) (June 6-September 20, 1916).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1915.87