Elizabeth Tuckerman Salisbury
(Mrs. Stephen Salisbury I), 1810–11¹
Oil on scored mahogany panel²
32 1/2 x 26 1/4 in. (82.5 x 66.7 cm)
Gift of Stephen Salisbury III, 1901.29

Provenance
Stephen Salisbury I, to his wife, Elizabeth Tuckerman Salisbury; to their son, Stephen Salisbury II; to his son, Stephen Salisbury III, who gave it to the Worcester Art Museum.

References
Mason 1879, 251.

BMFA 1880, 53, cat. no. 528.

Worcester Art Society 1891, [2], cat. no. 12.

Worcester Art Society 1895–1896, 8, cat. no. 46.

Worcester 1898, 15, cat. no. 86.

Worcester 1899, 29, cat. no. 156.

Worcester Annual Report 1900, 8, 11.

Copley Society 1902, 36, 55, cat. no. 69.

Worcester Annual Report 1902, 7.

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

Tuckerman 1914, 51.

L[    ]. 1915, 11–12, 14.

Worcester Annual Report 1916, 11.

Worcester 1922, 205.

Park 1926, II, 662–63, cat. no. 730; IV, 444.

Worcester 1929, cat. no. 329.

Forbes 1930a, 14, 17.

Worcester 1933, 96.

American Portraits 1939, II, 354, cat. no. 1878.

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

Dresser 1945, 200–1.

Art Institute of Chicago 1949, 69, 71.

Dresser 1949c, cat. no. 37, pl. 21.

Mount 1964, 374.

Hennessey 1973, 7.

Lapomarda 1973, 7.

DeLorme 1976, 127, 132.

Jareckie 1976, 24–26.

Campbell 1980, 8.

Meyer 1986, 21.

McLanathan 1986, 136–37.

Dorsey 1996, 3.

Exhibitions
First Exhibition of the Worcester Art Museum, Worcester Art Museum, May 1898, cat. no. 86.

Loan Collection of Portraits Exhibited by the Worcester Art Society in the New Public Library Building, Worcester Art Society, Worcester, Mass., March 31–April 1891, cat. no. 12.

Winter Exhibition of the Worcester Art Society, Worcester Art Society, Worcester, Mass., winter 1895–96, cat. no. 46.

Summer Exhibition of the Worcester Art Museum, Worcester Art Museum, summer 1899, cat. no. 156.

A Loan Collection of Portraits and Pictures of Fair Women, Copley Society, Copley Hall, Boston, February 27–March 27, 1902, 36, 55, cat. no. 69.

Exhibition of American Eighteenth Century Art Owned in and near Worcester, Worcester Art Museum, March 10–March 31, 1929, cat. no. 329.

From Colony to Nation: An Exhibition of American Painting, Silver and Architecture from 1650 to the War of 1812, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Ill., April 21–June 19, 1949.

Likeness of America, 1680–1820, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, Col., June 27–September 10, 1949.

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

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

Notes
1. This portrait has been previously published as Mrs. Stephen Salisbury in Mason 1879, 251; Portrait of Mrs. Stephen Salisbury in Copley Society 1902, 36, 55, cat. no. 69; Portrait of Mrs. Elizabeth Salisbury in Worcester Art Society 1895–1896, 8, cat. no. 46; Portrait of Mrs. Stephen Salisbury, Sr. (Elizabeth Tuckerman) in Worcester Art Society 1891, [2], cat. no. 12; Portrait of Mrs. Stephen Salisbury, Sr. in Worcester Annual Report 1900, 11; Elizabeth Tuckerman Salisbury in "Loan Exhibition of the Museum to the Public Schools," Worcester Bulletin 3: 4 (January 1913): 9; Elizabeth (Tuckerman) Salisbury in "The Salisbury Collection," Worcester News Bulletin, 4: 6 (March 1939); Portrait of Mrs. Elizabeth Tuckerman Salisbury in Worcester 1922, 205; Mrs. Stephen Salisbury, 1st (Elizabeth Tuckerman) in L[    ]. 1915, 11–12, 14; Portrait of Mrs. Stephen Salisbury I (Elizabeth Tuckerman Salisbury) in Worcester 1929, cat. no. 329; Mrs. Elizabeth (Tuckerman) Salisbury in Forbes 1930a, 14, 17; Mrs. Stephen Salisbury I in Dresser 1945, 200–1; Mrs. Stephen Salisbury, I (Elizabeth Tuckerman) in Art Institute of Chicago 1949, 71; and as Mrs. Stephen Salisbury I (Elizabeth Tuckerman) in Lapomarda 1973, 7.

Henry Wolf (1852–1916) made a wood engraving after Stuart's portrait ofElizabeth Tuckerman Salisbury (Mrs. Stephen Salisbury I), and it was published in the September 1819 issue of Harper's Magazine. Wolf gave the museum the engraving (1915.153a). See Worcester Annual Report 1916, 11.

2. Wood identification is based on scientific analysis of the cell structure by dendrologist R. Bruce Hoadley, January 5, 2000.