TitleLewis P. Clover, Jr.
Artist
Asher B. Durand
(American, 1796 - 1886)
Date1836
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 20 × 16 in.
Framed: 25 5/8 × 21 1/2 × 2 1/8 in.
SubmissionANA diploma presentation
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY
Object number390-P
Label TextAcademy records state that the date "1836" is inscribed on the back of the original canvas, now obscured by the mounting board, Clover would have been seventeen at the time "L. P. Clover," presumably the artist's father, lent a "Portrait of a Gentleman" by Durand to the Academy annual of 1837, which may have been this work. The portrait entered the organization's colections several years laters later, when Clover needed a portrait to present to the Academy in fulfillment of his election requirement, as an Associate member.
