Daniel Webster (1782-1852), Class of 1801
Gilbert Stuart, American, 1755 - 1828
1817-1820
Oil on wooden panel
Overall: 23 × 19 in. (58.4 × 48.3 cm)
Frame: 33 × 31 in. (83.8 × 78.7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Presented in memory of Francis Parkman (1898-1990) by his sons -- Henry, Francis Jr., Theodore B., and Samuel -- and by Edward Connery Lathem in tribute to Elizabeth French Lathem
P.992.21
Geography/Culture
North America, United States
Period
19th century
Object Name
Painting
Classification
Painting
Not on view
Inscription
[not signed or dated]; inscribed, in graphite, on frame and liner: B 505; inscribed, in chalk, on panel reverse: over [illegible] / DR
Course History
WRIT 7.24, Past Imperfect, Cynthia Monroe, Spring 2019
WRIT 7.24, Past Imperfect, Cynthia Monroe, Spring 2019
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.
President's Office, Parkhurst, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 1966-June 1982.
President's Office, Parkhurst, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 1982-July 1987.
Memorial Exhibition, Boston, Massachusetts, 1828.
Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 16, 1997.1997
Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 18, 2013-July 12, 2015.
Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 2, 2006-May 8, 2007.
Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 1990-June 22, 1997.
Gilbert Stuart, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Washington, D.C., 1880.
Fred Wilson, So Much Trouble in the World - Believe It or Not!, Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 4-December 11, 2005.
Exhibited as part of the celebration of the publication of the Webster Papers at Dartmouth College, 1989.
American Art, Colonial to Modern, Israel Sack Gallery and Rush Family Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 31, 2019-August 16, 2020.
American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 9-December 9, 2007.
Publication History
Robert V. Remini, Daniel Webster: The Man and His Time, New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1997, illustration.
Louis Menand, The Metaphysical Club, 1st ed., New York: Farrar Strauss and Giroux, 2001, 546 pp., ill.
Lawrence Park, Gilbert Stuart: An Illustrated Descriptive List of His Works, New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1926, no. 889, p. 794.
Kilburn, Engraved on wood, for Winsor's Memorial History of Boston.
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. 18-21.
Dartmouth Currents, Hanover, N.H.: Dartmouth Life, September 1992, p. 6, ill. p. 6.
Carrie Rebora Barratt and Ellen G. Miles, Gilbert Stuart, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004, ill. p.316.
Bonnie Carman Harvey, Daniel Webster: "Liberty and Union, Now and Forever", Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers, Inc., 2001, 112 pp., ill. p. 38.
Barbara Thompson, Fred Wilson, So Much Trouble in the World - Believe It or Not!, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2005.
Barbara J. MacAdam, American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Muesum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2007, p. 27, no. 7.
Provenance
1819-1846 in the collection of Mrs. Edmund Dwight (1788-1846) of Boston (Mrs. George Ticknor's sister); in 1846 bequeathed by Mrs. Edmund Dwight to her husband Edmund (1780-1849), in his collection until 1849; in 1849 bequeathed by Edmund Dwight to his daughter Mary Eliot Dwight (1821-1879) (who married Samuel Parkman, M.D., of Boston, in 1849); in 1879 bequeathed by Mrs. Samual Parkman (Mary Eliot Dwight) to her son, Henry Parkman, in his collection until 1924; in 1924 bequeathed by Henry Parkman to his wife, Mary Frances Parkman; bequeathed by Mary Francis Parkman (Mrs. Henry) to her son, Henry Parkman; 1958 bequeathed by Henry Parkman to his brother, Francis Parkman; in 1972 given by Francis Parkman's to his sons, Henry, Ted and Sam; 1992 given to Dartmouth College by Henry, Ted and Sam Parkman.
Catalogue Raisonne
Park, 1926, No. 889
Old Number
EL.P.947.1
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