The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 1, 2023

Benjamin Rouse

1819

John Wesley Jarvis

(American, 1781–1840)

America, 19th century

Oil on canvas

Unframed: 55.5 x 43.9 cm (21 7/8 x 17 5/16 in.)

Bequest of Adella Prentiss Hughes 1950.346

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

Inscribed on back: "My portrait was painted Nov 1819 when I was 24 years old."

Provenance
Virginia Krumholz, daughter of the sitter; Adella Prentiss Hughes, granddaughter of the sitter.
Exhibition history

Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Portraits of Men and Women Who Have Had an Important Part in the Making of Cleveland, (6 July-24 August 1919), no catalogue; see "Summer Exhibits" The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art (September-October 1919).

Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition of The Cleveland Museum of Art The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition (26 June-4 October 1936), cat. no. 35.

35th Anniversary Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 20-September 30, 1951).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1950.346