Chester Harding
Born Conway, Mass., September 1, 1792.
Died Boston, April 1, 1866.

Elizabeth Tuckerman Salisbury
(Mrs. Stephen Salisbury I )
, 1829
Oil on canvas
30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.5 cm)
Bequest of Stephen Salisbury III, 1907.32

Provenance
Stephen Salisbury II (1798–1884); to his son, Stephen Salisbury III (1835–1905), who bequeathed it to the Worcester Art Museum in 1907.

References
Worcester Art Society 1891, cat. no. 24.

Tuckerman 1914, 51.

L [    ] 1915, 13, 14.

Worcester 1922, 108, 109, 181.

One Hundred Years of American Art 1925, 631, 633.

National Academy of Design, 1925, 1, 7, 152.

Forbes 1930b, 77, 80–81.

"The Salisbury Collection," Worcester News Bulletin 4: 6 (March 1939): [2].

Worcester 1948, 80.

Flexner 1950, 113, 114.

Connecticut Valley Historical Museum, 1952, [5, 7].

White 1970, vii, opp. 102.

Hennessey 1973, 13, 14, 15.

Riggs 1976, 10, 11.

Campbell 1980, 8–9.

Danforth Museum 1981, 15, 16.

Lipton 1985, 179.

Meyer 1986a, 14.

Strickler, 1989, 77.

 

Exhibitions
Loan Collection of Portraits Exhibited by the Worcester Art Society in the New Public Library Building, Worcester Public Library, March 31–April 30, 1891, cat. no. 24.

Commemorative Exhibition by Members of the National Academy of Design, 1825–1925, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., October 17–November 15, 1925.

Commemorative Exhibition by Members of the National Academy of Design, 1825–1925, Grand Central Art Galleries, New York, New York, December 1, 1925– January 3, 1926.

Chester Harding (1792–1866), Connecticut Valley Historical Museum, Springfield, Mass., May 24–June 24, 1952.

The American Portrait: From the Death of Stuart to the Rise of Sargent, Worcester Art Museum, April 26–June 3, 1973.

The Second Fifty Years: American Art, 1826–1876, Worcester Art Museum, September 24, 1976–January 23, 1977.

Family Connections: Portraits by Chester Harding (1792–1866), Danforth Museum, Framingham, Mass., January 18–March 29, 1981.