Gilbert Stuart
Born North Kingston, R.I., December 3, 1755.
Died Boston, Mass., July 9, 1828.
Samuel Salisbury, 1810–111
Oil on mahogany panel2
32 7/8 x 26 7/16 in. (83.5 x 68.3 cm)
Gift of Stephen Salisbury III, 1901.28
Stephen Salisbury I to his wife, Elizabeth Tuckerman Salisbury; to their son, Stephen Salisbury II; to his son, Stephen Salisbury III, who gave the portrait to the Worcester Art Museum.3
References
Mason 1879, 251.
BMFA 1880, 53, cat. no. 526.
Salisbury 1885, I, 47.
Worcester Art Society 1891, [2], cat. no. 13.
Worcester Art Society 1895–1896, 8 cat. no. 45.
Worcester 1899, 29, cat. no. 157.
Worcester Annual Report 1900, 8, 11.
L[ ]. 1915, 14.
Worcester 1922, 206.
Park 1926, II, 660–61, cat. no. 727, IV, 442.
Lee 1929, 40.
Forbes 1930a, 14.
Forbes 1930b, 75.
Worcester 1933, 96.
American Portraits 1939, II, 354, cat. no. 1882.
Mount 1964, 374.
Jareckie 1976, 26.
Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc. 1981, lot 1.
Exhibitions
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. 13.
Winter Exhibition of the Worcester Art Society, Worcester Art Society, Worcester, Mass., winter 1895–96, cat. no. 45.
Summer Exhibition of the Worcester Art Museum, Worcester Art Museum, summer 1899, cat. no. 157.
The Early Republic: Consolidation of Revolutionary Goals, Worcester Art Museum, March 3–June 30, 1976.
Notes
1. This portrait has been previously published as Stephen Salisbury in Mason 1879, 251;
Portrait of Mr. Stephen Salisbury in Worcester 1898, 15, cat. no. 85; Portrait of Stephen Salisbury, Sr. in Worcester 1899, 29, cat. no. 155; Stephen Salisbury, 1st in "Loan Exhibition of the Museum to the Public Schools," Worcester Bulletin 3, no. 4 (January 1913): 9; Portrait of Stephen Salisbury I in Worcester 1922, 206; Stephen Salisbury, I in "The Salisbury Collection," Worcester News Bulletin 4, no. 6 (March 1939); and Stephen Salisbury, Sr. in Worcester Art Society 1891, [2], cat. no. 11.
A Stuart portrait of Stephen Salisbury was exhibited at the Boston Athenaeum’s 1828 memorial exhibition (cat. no. 1), but it is not known whether it was the Worcester portrait. Swan 1940, 70.
2. Wood identification is based on scientific analysis of the cell structure by dendrologist R. Bruce Hoadley, January 5, 2000.
3. Stephen Salisbury II's ownership of the painting was recorded in BMFA 1880, 53, cat. no. 526, and Salisbury 1885, I, 47. His son exhibited the painting in Worcester Art Society 1891, [2], cat. no. 13.