Portrait of Joseph Brant by Gilbert Stuart

SOLD BY ORDER OF THE 12TH DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND AND THE TRUSTEES OF THE NORTHUMBERLAND ESTATES

GILBERT STUART

SAUNDERSTOWN, RHODE ISLAND 1755 - 1828 BOSTON

PORTRAIT OF THE MOHAWK CHIEFTAIN THAYENDANEGEA, KNOWN AS JOSEPH BRANT (1742–1807)

inscribed, verso, on the relining: Joseph Theanandagen (commonly called Capt Brandt [sic]) Chief Warrior of Sachem of the Mohawk / Nation of Indians who served with the Duke of Northumberland in America in the Year 1776 / Transcribed 27^th June 1955

oil on canvas

76.2 by 61 cm.; 30 by 25 in.

Estimate

1,000,000 — 1,500,000

EXHIBITED:
British Institution, 1857, no. 710;
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 18th October 2004 - 27th February 2005 and National Portrait Gallery, Washington, 8th April 2005 - 31st May 2005, Gilbert Stuart, no. 17.

Sotheby's, Old Master and British Paintings sale
London  - 9 July 2014

Photo and copy from Sotheby's with additional Copy from Arts Council England.