Daniel Webster (1782-1852), Class of 1801
Chester Harding, American, 1792 - 1866
about 1830
Oil on canvas
Overall: 35 × 27 1/2 in. (88.9 × 69.9 cm)
Frame: 43 × 35 1/2 in. (109.2 × 90.2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Thomas M. Evans
P.962.198
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Painting
Research Area
Painting
On view
Inscriptions
Not signed. Not signed.
Exhibition History
Exhibited as part of the celebration of the publication of the Webster Papers at Dartmouth College, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 25-July 9, 1989.
Happy Birthday Daniel Webster, Carpenter Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 5, 1975-January 25, 1976.
Publication History
Robert V. Remini, Daniel Webster: The Man and His Time, New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1997, illustration.
Leah Lipton, A Truthful Likeness: Chester Harding and his Portraits, National Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 1986, p.185.
Provenance
B. P. Cheney [friend of the sitter]; to Mrs. Carl F. Kaufman [his daughter]; Vose Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts; sold to The John Nicholson Gallery, New York, 1954; sold to Joseph Katz, Baltimore, Maryland, 1954; sold to Victor D. Spark, New York [from the Estate of Joseph Katz]; sold to Thomas M. Evans, Sewickley, Pennsylvania, about 1957-58; given to present collection, 1962.
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