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John Lothrop Motley
Museum National Portrait Gallery
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John Lothrop Motley

c. 1835
Thomas Phillips, 1770 - 1845 visual detail
ArtistThomas Phillips, 1770 - 1845
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Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Sight: 78.1 x 61cm (30 3/4 x 24") Frame: 97.8 x 81.3 x 5.7cm (38 1/2 x 32 x 2 1/4")
Classification
Painting
Institution
National Portrait Gallery
Object number
NPG.66.8
Credit
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Market Intelligence

Observed sale facts, comparable evidence, artist index history and modeled research remain separate.

Public evidence
Last known price $6,500 Dealer sale · Mar 1, 1966
+563.3% vs previous observed sale
Matched price history · normalized USD · Foundry provisional
1960 · $9801966 · $6,500
$1K1960
$7K1966
Last known price$6,5002 matched observed sales
Observed median$3,740
Observed sales2
Artist index663.3
1966-03-01Dealer sale$6,500.00
1960-03-18Dealer purchase$980.00
Artist index contextLatest public build 663.3 · base 100 · n=1.Artist-level context is not an artwork valuation.

Comparable Sales

Same-artist public sales ranked by medium, creation year, dimensions and sale recency.

Evidence ranked
No public-rights comparable sales meet the current evidence criteria. RELICT does not fill the table with research-only or licensed-only facts.

Provenance

Public
John Lothrop Motley

John Lothrop Motley

his daughter Mary Motley Sheridan

his daughter Mary Motley Sheridan

her son Wilfred Sheridan

her son Wilfred Sheridan

Richard Sheridan [d. 1921]

Richard Sheridan [d. 1921]

his mother Clare Sheridan, Belmont House, Old Hastings, Sussex

his mother Clare Sheridan, Belmont House, Old Hastings, Sussex

(M. Knoedler & Co., New York)

(M. Knoedler & Co., New York)

purchased by NPG 1966.

purchased by NPG 1966.

Source provenance text

John Lothrop Motley; his daughter Mary Motley Sheridan; her son Wilfred Sheridan; Richard Sheridan [d. 1921]; his mother Clare Sheridan, Belmont House, Old Hastings, Sussex; (M. Knoedler & Co., New York); purchased by NPG 1966.

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Exhibitions

Public
No rights-cleared exhibition history is published.

Sourced Overview Evidence

John Lothrop Motley is a work by Thomas Phillips, 1770 - 1845. dated c. 1835. made in Oil on canvas. with recorded dimensions Sight: 78.1 x 61cm (30 3/4 x 24") Frame: 97.8 x 81.3 x 5.7cm (38 1/2 x 32 x 2 1/4"). The work is recorded by National Portrait Gallery under accession NPG.66.8.

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Evidence state

2 observed sales · 0 comparable sales · 7 structured provenance events · 0 structured exhibitions.

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