John Neagle notebooks and account books
name: label: Creator
content: Neagle, John, 1796-1865
label: Names
content: Hart, Charles Henry, 1847-1918
label: Names
content: Sully, Thomas, 1783-1872
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
label: Occupation
content: Portrait painters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Commonplace book microfilmed by AAA in 1955. Remainder microfilmed with other art-related collections at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania as part of the Archives of American Art's Philadelphia project.
creator: label: Creator
content: Neagle, John, 1796-1865
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Portrait painter; Philadelphia, Penn. aAt 14 years, Neagle apprenticed with Thomas Wilson, a coach and ornamental painter. Through Wilson, Neagle met and studied under Bass Otis. Influences on Neagle's work include Thomas Sully and Gilbert Stuart. Neagle's painting "Pat Lyon at the Forge" was exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy in 1827 and brought him recognition and a reputation as a fine painter. In addition to painting, he devoted his attentions to the Pennsylvania Academy, the Artists' Fund Society, and art theory.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 3 Microfilm reels
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1824-1861
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.neagjona
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Microfilm reels
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels 3656-3657 available at Archives of American Art offices; the Historical Society of Pennsylvania; the Free Library of Philadelphia; and through interlibrary loan.
label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel P23 available for use at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Five volumes of notebooks and account books documenting personal activities, financial matters, information on art and artists.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL P23 (fr. 453-512): Commonplace book, May 1839, handwritten by Neagle, with note by Charles Henry Hart that the book was commenced on the above date, but much of the matter was copied from a book of memorandums kept by Neagle years before.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REELS 3656-3657: Four volumes of notebooks and account books documenting personal activities, financial matters, information on art and artists. The memorandum of articles loaned lists prints and books, when and to whom they were loaned and sometimes, when they were returned. Items loaned include Burke on the Sublime, Price on Picturesque, as well as others. The blotter discusses commissions, sitters, prices and dates, in the form of individual entries for most days. The cash book lists cash received, cash paid and the amount of money owed by each client. Student notebook includes a recipe for "Mastick Varnish" and quotations of Mengs, Reynolds and Lawrence as well as color samples from Sir Thomas Lawrence's palette as copied by Thomas Sully.