Gilbert Stuart
Born North Kingston, R.I., December 3, 1755.
Died Boston, Mass., July 9, 1828.

Stephen Salisbury I, 1823–241
Oil on canvas
28 1/16 x 23 1/16 in. (71.3 x 58.7 cm)
Gift of Stephen Salisbury III, 1901.32
Inscription
Three canvas stamps, partially obscured by the top stretcher, include a rectangular excise stamp which is divided into four sections: "[4] 916 17 71"; a maker's stamp: "T. BROWN/ High Holborn/ Linen"; and a crown stamp with the word LINENS under it, and the number 99 below it.

Provenance
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.

References
Mason 1879, 251.

BMFA 1880, 53, no. 527.

Salisbury 1885, I, 34.

Worcester Art Society, 1891, [2], cat. no. 11.

Worcester 1898, 15, cat. no. 85.

Worcester 1899, 29, cat. no. 155.

Worcester Annual Report 1900, 8, 11.

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

L[    ]. 1915, 11, 14.

Worcester 1922, 206.

Park 1926, II, 661, cat. no. 728; IV, 443.

Lee 1929, 40.

Worcester 1929, cat. no. 328.

Forbes 1930a, 2, 14–18.

Worcester 1933, 96.

Swan 1936, 67.

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

American Portraits 1939, II, 355, cat. no. 1884.

Worcester 1948, 79.

Mount 1964, 315, 374.

Rich and Dresser 1966, 648.

Hennessey 1973, 6–7.

Jareckie 1976, 27.

Teitz 1979, 62–63.

Campbell 1980, 8.

Meyer 1986a, 21.

Meyer 1987, 10.

Strickler 1989, 118.

Dorsey 1996, 2.

Exhibitions
First Exhibition of the Worcester Art Museum, Worcester Art Museum, May 1898, cat. no. 85.

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. 11.

Summer Exhibition of the Worcester Art Museum, Worcester Art Museum, summer 1899, cat. no. 155.

Exhibition of American Eighteenth Century Art Owned in and near Worcester, Worcester Art Museum, March 10–31, 1929, cat. no. 328.

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.

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

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: 4 (January 1913): 9; Portrait of Stephen Salisbury I in Worcester 1922, 206; Stephen Salisbury, I in "The Salisbury Collection," Worcester News Bulletin 4: 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.