Martha Saunders Salisbury
(Mrs. Nicholas Salisbury), 1789¹
Oil on canvas
35 1/8 x 28 3/4 in. (89.2 x 73.0 cm)
Gift of Stephen Salisbury III, 1901.22

Lower right, legible text on the left page of the open book, in black paint: "CHAP V," "39, "Search the Scriptures", and "CHAP VI."

Provenance
Stephen Salisbury I (1746–1829); to his wife 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.

References
Salisbury 1885, 37.

Worcester Art Society 1891, n.p.

Worcester 1899, 29.

Worcester Annual Report, 1900, 11.

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

L[    ]. 1915, 2, 8, 14.

Worcester 1922, 181.

Worcester 1929, n.p.

Forbes 1930a, 3, 4, 5.

Worcester 1933, 95.

Burroughs 1936, 98.

American Portraits 1939, II, 354, cat. no. 1881.

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

Watkins 1948, 430.

Worcester 1948, 78.

Dresser 1949a, 29.

Dresser 1949b, 109, 110, 154, 155.

Sadik 1966, 89.

Lee 1968, 509.

Dresser 1971, 477.

Jareckie 1976, 17.

Little 1976a, n.p., cat. no. 46.

Little 1976b, 1000.

Sadik 1976, 17, 18, 19, 33 n. 11.

Denker and Denker 1979, 20, 22.

Teitz 1979, 48–49.

Campbell 1980, 6–7.

Cooper 1980a, 64, 65, 66, 67.

Cooper 1980b, 113, 114.

Bishop 1983, 167.

Garrett 1983, 619, 619.

Meyer 1986a, 4, 23.

Garrett 1990, 112.

Nylander 1993, 34.

Exhibitions
Loan Collection of Portraits Exhibited by the Worcester Art Society in the New Public Library Building, Worcester Art Society, March 31–April 30, 1891, cat. no. 19.

Summer Exhibition of the Worcester Art Museum, Worcester Art Museum, summer, 1899, cat. no. 158.

Exhibition of American Eighteenth Century Art Owned in and Near Worcester, Worcester Art Museum, March 10–March 31, 1929, cat. no. 327.

Christian Gullager, 1759–1826, Worcester Art Museum, June 18–September 6, 1949, cat. no. 18.

The Early Republic: Consolidation of Revolutionary Goals, Worcester Art Museum, March 3–June 30, 1976, cat. p. 17.

Paintings by New England Provincial Artists, 1775–1800, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, July 20–Oct. 17, 1976, cat. no. 46.

American Art from the Collection of the Worcester Art Museum, Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, April 27–June 24, 1979, cat. pp. 48–49.

Notes
1. Martha Saunders Salisbury ("Loan Exhibition of the Museum to Public Schools," Worcester Bulletin 3:4 (Jan. 1913): 9); Martha (Saunders) Salisbury (Mrs. Nicholas Salisbury) (Dresser 1949b, 154); Mrs. Martha (Saunders) Salisbury (Forbes 1930a, 5); Mrs. Nicholas Salisbury (Worcester Annual Report, 1900, 11); Mrs. Nicholas Salisbury (Martha Saunders) (Worcester Art Society 1891, n.p.); Mrs. Salisbury (Worcester 1933, 95); Portrait of Mrs. Nicholas Salisbury (Worcester 1922, 181); Portrait of Mrs. Nicholas Salisbury (Martha Saunders) (Worcester 1899, 29); and Portrait of Mrs. Nicholas Salisbury (Martha Saunders Salisbury) (Worcester 1929, n.p.).