Noah Smith

1. Noah Smith, Bennington, Vermont, 1798; by descent to Eliza Smith, Huntington, Vergennes, Vermont, 1812. Ann Eliza Huntington, Vergennes, Vermont, by 1912; John Harrington, Vergennes, Vermont, from 1912; bequeathed to Grand Lodge of the Most Ancient and Honorable Society of Free and Accepted Masons of the State of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, from 1913; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1956.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Allentown Art Museum, Penn., The World of Benjamin West, May 1–July 31, 1962, cat. 71.

• Franklin Bowditch Dexter, Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College (New York, Holt, 1885).
• Daniel Catton Rich, “The Portraits of Ralph Earl,” International Studio 96, 4 (Aug. 1930), 36–39.
• New Jersey Historical Records Survey Project, American Portrait Inventory, 1440 Early American Portrait Artists (Historical Records Survey, 1940), 86.
• John Spargo, The Rise and Progress of Freemasonry in Vermont (Burlington, Vermont, privately printed, 1944).
• From Colony to Nation (Art Institute of Chicago, 1949).
• Samuel M. Green, “Uncovering the Connecticut School,” Art News 51, 10 (Jan. 1953), 38.
• Lloyd Goodrich, “Ralph Earl’s Debt to Gainsborough and Other English Portraitists,” Antiques 78 (Nov. 1960), 464–65.
• Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago, A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), 156.
• Laurence B. Goodrich, Ralph Earl, Recorder for an Era (State University of New York, 1967).
• David A. Hanks, “American Paintings at The Art Institute of Chicago, Part 1: The Eighteenth Century,” Antiques 104 (Sept. 1973), 415.
• Margaretta M. Lovell, “Reading Eighteenth–Century American Family Portraits: Social Images and Self–Images,” Winterthur Portfolio 22, 4 (Winter 1987), 244–64.
• Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser, Ralph Earl: The Face of the Young Republic, exh. cat., (Yale University Press, 1991), cat. 59.

Mrs. Noah Smith and Family

Art Institute of Chicago

Priest and Boy

Art Institute of Chicago

The Dunes, Indiana

Art Institute of Chicago

Woman under Six Lights

Art Institute of Chicago

The End of the Trail

Art Institute of Chicago

Chinatown Night

Art Institute of Chicago

Ghost Dance (The Vision of Life)

Art Institute of Chicago

Nouvart Dzeron, A Daughter of Armenia

Art Institute of Chicago

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