Alexander Grant

1. David Chesebrough (1702/3–1782), Newport, RI, and Stonington, CT, 1770 [father-in-law of the sitter; this and the following according to letter from Dr. Charles M. Williams to Robert C. Vose, Jr., c. 1970; copy in curatorial object file]; by descent through the family to his great-grandson, Deacon David Chesebrough Smith (1782–1833), Stonington, CT, 1808; by descent to his daughter, Betsey Chesebrough Williams (1806–1860; born Betsey Chesebrough Smith, also Mrs. Charles Phelps Williams, Sr.), Stonington, CT, 1833; by descent to her daughter, Bessie S. Sherman (1832–1915; born Bessie S. Williams; also Mrs. Ezra Lewis Sherman), Chicago, 1860; given to the Stonington Historical Society, Stonington, CT, 1916 [letter from Dr. J. H. Weeks to Dr. C. Williams, Dec. 23, 1916; copy in curatorial object file]; consigned to Vose Galleries, Boston, by Oct., 1970 [<em>Antiques</em> Oct., 1970, 561]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1977.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Stonington, CT, Stonington Village Improvement Society, <em>Exhibition of Early American Portraits</em>, Aug. 20– , 1925, cat. 4.
• RI, Art Association of Newport, <em>Retrospective Exhibition of the Work of Artists Identified with Newport, Rhode Island Tercentenary</em>, July 25–Aug. 16, 1936, cat. 11.
• RI, Newport Historical Society, permanent galleries, Sept. 18–1974–Sept. 21, 1976.

• William Dunlap, <em>A History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States</em> vol. 1 (C.E. Goodspeed and Company, 1918), 197–99, 202.
• Lawrence Park, Gilbert Stuart, <em>An Illustrated Descriptive List of his Works</em>, vol. 1 (William Edwin Rudge, 1926), 25, 357.
• Art Association of Newport, <em>Retrospective Exhibition of The Work of Artists Identified with Newport, Rhode Island Tercentenary</em>, exh. cat. (Art Association of Newport, 1936), 10, cat. 11.
• James Thomas Flexner, <em>America’s Old Masters</em> (Viking Press, 1939), 259–61.
• Virgil Barker, <em>American Painting</em> (Macmillan, 1950), 117.
• James Thomas Flexner, "Gilbert Stuart, 'Primitive'," <em>Antiques</em> 67, no. 3 (Mar., 1955): 233–35 (ill.).
• Gavin Maitland Goodfellow, <em>Cosmo Alexander: The Art, Life, and Times of Cosmo Alexander (1724–1772), Portrait Painter in Scotland and America</em> (master's thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1961), 157, cat. 55, pl. 19 (ill.).
• Gavin Maitland Goodfellow, “Cosmo Alexander in America,” <em>Art Quarterly</em> 26, no. 3 (Autumn, 1963): 309–20, fig. 5 (ill.).
• "Notes," <em>Bulletin of the Newport Historical Society</em> 48, no. 1 (Winter, 1975): 260–62 (ill.).
• Pam McLellan Geddy, “Cosmo Alexander’s Travels and Patrons in America," <em>Magazine Antiques</em> 112, no. 5 (Nov., 1977): 972–77.
• Milo M. Naeve, <em>The Classical Presence in American Art</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 1978), 15, cat. 18 (ill.).
• Milo M. Naeve, “Cosmo Alexander’s Portrait of Alexander Grant,” <em>Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago</em> 72, no. 1 (Jan.–Feb., 1978), 8–10 (ill.), <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/4104026">https://www.jstor.org/stable/4104026</a>.

Streetcar

Art Institute of Chicago

Mouchoirs D'Instruction Militarie No. 1 (Handkerchief)

Art Institute of Chicago

Flying Dragon (intermediate maquette)

Art Institute of Chicago

(3 x 5) + 1

Art Institute of Chicago

Reclining Torso

Art Institute of Chicago

Twentieth Century Ruin

Art Institute of Chicago

The Chicken

Art Institute of Chicago

Black Dots

Art Institute of Chicago

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