Daniel Webster (1782-1852), Class of 1801
George Peter Alexander Healy, American, 1813 - 1894
1853
Oil on canvas
Overall: 30 1/4 × 25 in. (76.9 × 63.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of H. L. R. Emmet
P.968.87
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Painting
Research Area
Painting
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed and dated, in red paint, G.P.A. Healy 1853. Label on center front frame: Daniel Webster 1782-1742 (sic)
Exhibition History
The Godlike Black Dan, A Selection of Portraits from Life in Commemoration of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Daniel Webster, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., June 4-November 28, 1982.
Publication History
James Barber and Frederick Voss, The Godlike Black Dan, A Selection of Portraits from Life in Commemoration of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Daniel Webster, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1982, p. 40-43.
Provenance
Possibly in the collection of Caroline LeRoy Webster (1797-1882)[Mrs. Daniel Webster]; by descent in the Le Roy / Emmet family to Herman Le Roy Emmet (1889-1968), Erie, Pennsylvania, given to present collection, in 1956 [the donor retained possession of the painting until his death in 1968].
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