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Major-General Henry Dearborn
Gilbert Stuart · 1812
Provenance
Ownership history
- Henry Dearborn (1751–1829), Boston and Roxbury, MA, 1812; by descent to Henry Alexander Scammell Dearborn (1783–1851), Roxbury, MA, 1829; by descent to Henry George Raleigh Dearborn (1809–1884), Roxbury, MA, 1851; by descent to his widow Sarah Maria Thurston (1818–1894; also Mrs. Henry George Raleigh Dearborn), Roxbury, MA, 1884; sold to the Chicago Commercial Club, 1886; given to Calumet Club, Chicago, 1886. Herbert L. Pratt (1871–1945), Brooklyn, NY, 1912; sold to M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1913; Henry Reinhardt Galleries, Chicago, 1914; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1914.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- The Boston Atheneum Gallery, Exhibition of Portraits Painted by the Late Gilbert Stuart, Esq., Aug. 4–Aug. 30, 1828, cat. no. 197.
- Bostonian Society Galleries, Old State House, Loan Collection, Jan. 1885–Apr. 1886, incorrectly cited as lent by Miss Mary Dearborn instead of Mrs. Maria Dearborn (Mrs. George Henry Raleigh Dearborn).
- Art Institute of Chicago, Loan Exhibition of Portraits, Jan. 2–22, 1905, cat. no. 120, lent by the Calumet Club.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Loan Exhibition of American Paintings, Jan. 8–28, 1914, cat. no. 15.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Special Exhibition of the Works in the Friends of American Art Collection, May 15–June 15, 1919.
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1– Nov. 1, 1933, cat. no. 424, ill.
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1– Nov. 1, 1934, cat. no. 378.
- Indianapolis, Ind, John Herron Art Museum, Retrospective Exhibition of Portraits by Gilbert Stuart, 1755–1828, Jan. 1–Feb. 8, 1942, ct. no. 25, ill.
- Michigan, Grand Rapids Art Gallery, Art of the American Colonial and Revolutionary Periods, Sept. 26–Oct. 31, 1943.
- WI, Milwaukee Art Institute, <em>Nineteenth Century American Masters</em>, Feb. 20–Mar. 28, 1948, no cat.
- Art Institute of Chicago, From Colony to Nation: An Exhibition of American Painting, Silver and Architecture from 1650 to the War of 1812, Apr. 21–June 19, 1949, cat. no. 112.
- Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/4071/two-centuries-of-american-art-1750-1950"><em>Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950</em></a>, Oct. 1, 1959–Jan. 10, 1960, no cat. [downloadable checklist available].
Literature
Published references
- George C. Mason, The Life and Works of Gilbert Stuart (1879; repr., Burt Franklin Reprints, 1972), 170–171.
- Justin H. Smith, “The Prologue of the American Revolution,” Century Magazine, 65, 4 (February 1903), 543.
- “Important Pictures in New York Galleries,” Fine Arts Journal 29 (1913), 717–722.
- “Notes: Gifts of the Friends,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago, 7, 4 (April 1914), 4, ill. p. 55.
- Lorinda Munson Bryant, American Pictures and their Painters (John Lane company, 1917), 30–32.
- Lawrence Park, Gilbert Stuart (William Edwin Rudge, 1926) v.1, no. 224, 268–269.
- Eugen Neuhaus, The History and Ideals of American Art (Stanford University Press, 1931), ill. p. 32.
- C.J. Bulliet, Art Masterpieces in a Century of Progress Fine Arts Exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago (North–Mariano Press, c. 1933).
- David A. Hanks, “American Paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago,” Magazine Antiques (September 1973), 408–417, ill. p. 417.
- Richard McLanathan, Gilbert Stuart (Abrams, 1986), 86, ill.
- Milo M. Naeve, “The Edwardian Era and Patrons of American Art at the Art Institute of Chicago: The Birth of a Tradition,” America’s International Exposition of Fine Art and Antiques (The Lakeside Group, 1988), fig. 6, 23, ill.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Master Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago (Boston and Toronto: Little, brown, 1988), 77, ill.
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