Eben Flagg (1795-1837)
Washington Allston, American, 1779 - 1843
about 1801
Oil on canvas
Overall: 20 1/4 x 16 1/4 in. (51.4 x 41.3 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Gift of Priscilla P. and William M. Chester, Jr.
2013.25
Geography/Culture
North America, United States
Period
19th century
Object Name
Painting
Classification
Painting
Not on view
Exhibition History
Lent by William Merrill Chester, Jr. to the Milwaukee Art Museum, probably in the 1960s.
Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 4, 2014.
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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