 Gilbert Stuart Born North Kingston, R.I., December 3, 1755. Died Boston, Mass., July 9, 1828. Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton |
| Provenance Found in Stuart’s studio after his death, Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton (Mrs. Perez Morton) remained in possession of Stuart’s wife and then her daughter Jane until 1862. Jane Stuart sold the portrait to Ernest Tuckerman of Newport, Rhode Island.2 After Ernest Tuckerman died in Cannes, France, about 1865, the portrait passed to his father, Joseph Tuckerman, Jr. (d. 1898), who bequeathed it to Stephen Salisbury III, of Worcester, his first cousin once removed. Joseph Tuckerman, Jr., was the son of Joseph Tuckerman (1778–1840), who was the brother of Stephen Salisbury III’s grandmother, Elizabeth Tuckerman Salisbury. Stephen Salisbury III gave the portrait to the Worcester Art Museum and requested that it be labeled as the gift of the grandchildren of Joseph Tuckerman.3 References Metropolitan Fair 1864, 12, cat. no. 293. Tuckerman 1867, 110. Mason 1879, 225. Noble 1897–98, 290. Worcester 1898–99, 21, cat. no. 75. Worcester Annual Report for 1899, 35, 53. Copley Society 1902, 36, 55, cat. no. 67. Worcester Annual Report 1902, 7. Mechlin 1907, xli, xlviii. "Loan Exhibition of the Museum to the Public Schools," Worcester Bulletin 3: 4 (January 1913): 8, 9. L [ ]., 1915, 10, 11. Bryant 1917, 33, 34, pl. n.p. Worcester 1921, cover illus. Worcester 1922, 102–3, 205. Berry 1925, 190, 193. Park 1926, II, 534–36, cat. no. 561; IV, 340. Lee 1929, 40. Pendleton and Ellis 1931, 82–83. Worcester 1933, 96, 98. Art Institute of Chicago 1933, cat. no. 425. DAB 1934, 266. RISD 1936, 10, cat. no. 15. Lester and Oerke 1940, 66, 68–69. Minneapolis 1942, 20. Stuart 1942a, 20. Stuart 1942, 11. John Herron Art Museum 1942, cat. no. 18. Walker and James 1943, 6, 7, pl. 23. Worcester 1948, 79. Dresser 1949b, 178. Robb 1951, 867–68. Flexner 1955, 113–14. Pierson and Davidson 1960, 324. Harris 1964, 202–6, 219. Mount 1964, 276, 372. Goodrich 1966, 23, 154, cat. no. 269. Green 1966, 154–55. Rich and Dresser 1966, 648, 654. National Gallery of Art 1967, cat. no. 36. O’Doherty 1967, 44. Wilmerding 1967, 12, 38. Bronstein 1969, pls. 110, 223. BMFA 1969, I, 245. Novak 1969, 237–38, 315 n. 9. Howat and Wilmerding 1970, cat. no. 3. Flexner 1970, 29, 31. Frankenstein 1970, 176. Schwartz 1970a, 30. Schwartz 1970b, 292–93. James 1971, II, 587. Dresser 1971, 479–81. Worcester 1973, 154. McLanathan 1973, 89, 90. Wilmerding 1973, 86, 87, 338 n. 3. Neumeyer 1974, 115, 120, 306, pl. 115. New-York Historical Society 1974, II, 565. Sibley and Shipton XVII, 1975, 561. Andrus 1976, 94, fig. 30. Jareckie 1976, 24. Wilmerding 1976, 51–52, pl. 50. Taggart 1977, 17, cat. no. 8. DeLorme 1979a, 359–60. DeLorme 1979b, 378 n. 56. Teitz 1979, 58–59. Perkins and Gavin 1980, 136. Cowell 1981, n.p. Walker 1983, 183, 187, overleaf fig. 209. van der Marck 1984, 224, 230. McLanathan 1986, frontispiece, 110–12. Richardson 1986, 94. Miele 1989, 284. Whitehill 1989, 22–23. Goddard 1990, 38, 44. Cohen 1993, 189. Caldwell and Roque 1994, xxviii. Docherty 1994, 79 n. 52. Worcester 1994, 189. Miles 1995, 218, 280 nn. 3, 7. Wentworth 1995, 38. Evans 1999, xiii, 110–11, 113, pl. 15. ANB XXI, 1999, 71. Exhibitions Articles Contained in the Museum and Curiosity Shop of Metropolitan Fair, New York, April 4, 1864, 12, cat. no. 293. Winter Exhibition of the Worcester Art Museum, Worcester Art Museum, 1898–1899, 21, cat. no. 75. A Loan Collection of Portraits and Pictures of Fair Women, Copley Society, Copley Hall, Boston, Mass., February 27–March 27, 1902, cat. no. 67. A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Ill., June 1–November 1, 1933, cat. no. 425. Rhode Island Tercentary Celebration, Art Museum, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, R.I., Feb. 6–March 31, 1936, 10, cat. no. 15. Retrospective Exhibition of Portraits by Gilbert Stuart, 1755–1828, John Herron Art Museum, Indianapolis, Ind., January 1–February 8, 1942, cat. no. 18. Art of the United States: 1670–1866, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, September 28–November 27, 1966, cat. no. 269. Gilbert Stuart: Portraitist of the Young Republic, 1755–1828, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., July 1–August 20, 1967, cat. no. 36. Gilbert Stuart: Portraitist of the Young Republic, 1755–1828, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, R.I., September 9–October 15, 1967, cat. no. 36. Nineteenth-Century America Paintings and Sculpture: An Exhibition in Celebration of the Hundredth Anniversary of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 16–September 7, 1970, cat. no. 3. The Early Republic: Consolidation of Revolutionary Goals, Worcester Art Museum, March 3–June 30, 1976. Kaleidoscope of American Painting, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: A Loan Exhibition, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Mo., December 2, 1977–January 22, 1978, cat. no. 8. American Art from the Collections of the Worcester Art Museum, Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Tex., April 27–June 24, 1979. In Quest of Excellence: Civic Pride, Patronage, Connoisseurship, Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, Fla., January 14–April 22, 1984. Notes 2. Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1813–1871) noted, "Stuart left several unfinished heads," including "one of Mrs. Perez Morton, of Massachusetts, belonging to Ernest Tuckerman." Ernest Tuckerman was Henry’s first cousin once removed. Tuckerman 1867, 110, and Park 1926, II, 534–36, cat. no. 561. 3. A note by Louisa Dresser in the curatorial files indicates she received this provenance information from museum director Benjamin H. Stone in 1947, and although it is essentially correct, a February 21, 1899, trustee report reads: "To extend the thanks of the directors to Mr. Paul Tuckerman for the gift from the estate of Mr. Joseph Tuckerman." This annual report published in 1899 also lists five objects including Stuart’s Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton (Mrs. Perez Morton) that were given "from the estate of the late Joseph Tuckerman, Esq. of Newport, by Paul Tuckerman, Esq. of Newport, and Hon. Stephen Salisbury." Worcester Annual Report for 1899, 35. Paul Tuckerman was Ernest Tuckerman’s first cousin and the son of Lucius Tuckerman, Joseph Tuckerman, Jr.’s brother. 4. Worcester’s portrait of Morton was included in the Boston Athenaeum’s annual exhibition (cat. no. 155) in 1855 and listed for sale. Perkins and Gavin 1980, 136, and Hina Hirayam, Assistant Curator, Boston Athenaeum, to Laura K. Mills, April 10, 2000, Worcester Art Museum curatorial files. A Stuart portrait of Morton was also exhibited (cat. no. 181) at the Boston Athenaeum for the Stuart exhibition of 1828, but it is not known which of three versions was included. Perkins and Gavins 1980, 135. |