After a pastel by Gerrit Schipper
Born Krommenie, Holland, September 13, 1775.
Died London, about 1830.

Edward Tuckerman, 1823¹
Oil on mahogany panel
9 9/16 x 7 15/16 x 3/16 in. (24.3 x 20.2 x .5 cm)
Gift of Stephen Salisbury III, 1899.6

On back of panel, in black paint within lines laid out in graphite:

Profile Portrait of M^R E^D Tuckerman
Painted by J. R. Penniman, in Oil 1823
from a Profile Painted in Crayons
by G. Schipper in 1804.
     Boston, March 1823.

Provenance
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, 1899.

References
Worcester Annual Report 1900, 11.

Forbes 1930b, 74, 76, 78, 79.

Swan 1941, 248.

Teitz 1979, 72–73.

Andrews 1981, 151, 158, 161, 169.

Andrews 1982, 151, 158, 161, 169.

Brigham 2000, 631.

Christie’s 2000, 111.

Exhibitions
American Art from the Collection of the Worcester Art Museum, Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Tex., April 27–June 24, 1979.

John Ritto Penniman (1782–1841): An Ingenious New England Artist, Worcester Art Museum, February 26–April 25, 1982.

Notes
1. This portrait also has been published as: Portrait of Edward Tuckerman (Worcester Annual Report 1900, 11).

2. Swan wrote incorrectly that the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, rather than the Worcester Art Museum, owned the Penniman portrait of Edward Tuckerman.