Daniel Webster (1782-1852), Class of 1801
Thomas Bayley Lawson, American, 1807 - 1888
1851
Oil on wood panel
Overall: 7 1/8 × 5 7/8 in. (18.1 × 14.9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of John Fuess
P.968.68
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Painting
Research Area
Painting
Not on view
Exhibition History
Happy Birthday Daniel Webster, Carpenter Gallery, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 5, 1975-January 25, 1976.
Published References
This copy in oil on wood panel was taken from a daguerreotype made by Ormsby and Silsbee in 1851, the year before he died. It is said to be the last likeness made of him. Webster sat for this daguerreotype at the request of Mr. Henry Williams, the printer-publisher of Boston in order to enable Thomas Bayley Lawson to paint a full-length figure. Lawson had painted a bust earlier in 1844. A stand-in stood for for the torso.
Provenance
John Fuess; given to present collection, 1968.
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