Christian Gullager
Born Copenhagen, Denmark, March 1, 1759.
Died Philadelphia, November 12, 1826.

Stephen Salisbury I, 17891
Oil on canvas
35 5/8 x 28 15/16 in. (90.5 x 73.7 cm)
Gift of Stephen Salisbury III, 1901.23
Provenance
Stephen Salisbury I (1746–1829); to his wife Elizabeth Tuckerman Salisbury (1768–1851); to her son Stephen Salisbury II (1798–1884); to his son Stephen Salisbury III (1835–1905); to the Worcester Art Museum.

References
Salisbury 1885, I, 34.

Worcester Annual Report, 1900, 11.

"Loan Exhibition of the Museum to Public Schools," Worcester Bulletin 3: 4 (Jan. 1913): 9.

L[    ]. 1915, 4, 8, 14.

Bayley 1917b, n.p.

Worcester 1922, 189.

Forbes 1930a, 4, 6, 10.

Burroughs 1936, 99.

American Portraits 1939, II, 335, cat. no. 1883.

"The Salisbury Collection," Worcester News Bulletin 4: 6 (March 1939).

Dresser 1949a, 29.

Dresser 1949b, 109, 141, 156, 157.

Alden 1955, 17.

Responsibility 1956, 21.

Sadik 1966, 89.

Dresser 1971, 476, 478, 479.

Lapomarda 1973, 6.

Worcester 1973, 155.

Jareckie 1976, 17, 18.

Sadik 1976, 17, 18, 19, 33 n. 11.

Sherrill 1976, 416.

Teitz 1979, 50, 51.

Meyer 1986a, 3, 34.

Strickler 1989, 118.

Exhibitions
Christian Gullager, 1759–1826, Worcester Art Museum, June 18–September 6, 1949, cat. no. 19.

The Early Republic: Consolidation of Revolutionary Goals, Worcester Art Museum, March 3–June 30, 1976, cat. pp. 17, 18.

American Art from the Collection of the Worcester Art Museum, Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, April 27–June 24, 1979, cat. pp. 50, 51.

Notes
1. This painting has also been attributed to Horace C. Johnson (Worcester Annual Report, 1900, 11) and John Johnston (L[    ]. 1915, 14). Gullager was identified correctly as the artist in Forbes 1930a, 6. It has been published under several alternate titles: Stephen Salisbury (Bayley 1917b, n.p.); Stephen Salisbury, 1st ("Loan Exhibition of the Museum to Public Schools," Worcester Bulletin 3: 4 (Jan. 1913): 9); and Stephen Salisbury, Sr. (Worcester Annual Report, 1900, 11);