Eben Flagg (1795-1837)
Washington Allston, American, 1779 - 1843
about 1801
Oil on canvas
Overall: 20 1/4 × 16 1/4 in. (51.4 × 41.3 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Priscilla P. and William M. Chester, Jr.
2013.25
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Painting
Research Area
Painting
Not on view
Exhibition History
American Art, Colonial to Modern, Israel Sack Gallery and Rush Family Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 26-July 21, 2019.
Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 4, 2014.
Lent by William Merrill Chester, Jr. to the Milwaukee Art Museum, probably in the 1960s.
Provenance
MacBeth Gallery, New York; sold to Alice Greenwood Chapman (1853–1935), Milwaukee, Wisconsin (great aunt of donor William Merrill Chester, Jr.), early 1900s; bequeathed to William Merrill Chester, Jr., 1935 (held for him by his grandmother, [Alice Greenwood Chapman’s sister], Laura Chapman Miller [1866–1960], Milwaukee, until he married and had a house of his own); William Merrill Chester Jr. took physical possession of the painting following his 1949 marriage to Priscilla Penfield; given to present collection, 2013.
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