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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Major-General Henry Dearborn
    Gilbert Stuart. Major-General Henry Dearborn, 1812. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00001196

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    Major-General Henry Dearborn

    by Gilbert Stuart

    Provenance

    Henry Dearborn (1751–1829), Boston and Roxbury, MA, 1812; by descent to Henry Alexander Scammell Dearborn (1783–1851), Roxbury, MA, 1829; by descent to Henry George Raleigh Dearborn (1809–1884), Roxbury, MA, 1851; by descent to his widow Sarah Maria Thurston (1818–1894; also Mrs. Henry George Raleigh Dearborn), Roxbury, MA, 1884; sold to the Chicago Commercial Club, 1886; given to Calumet Club, Chicago, 1886. Herbert L. Pratt (1871–1945), Brooklyn, NY, 1912; sold to M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1913; Henry Reinhardt Galleries, Chicago, 1914; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1914.

    Exhibition history

    The Boston Atheneum Gallery, Exhibition of Portraits Painted by the Late Gilbert Stuart, Esq., Aug. 4–Aug. 30, 1828, cat. no. 197. Bostonian Society Galleries, Old State House, Loan Collection, Jan. 1885–Apr. 1886, incorrectly cited as lent by Miss Mary Dearborn instead of Mrs. Maria Dearborn (Mrs. George Henry Raleigh Dearborn). Art Institute of Chicago, Loan Exhibition of Portraits, Jan. 2–22, 1905, cat. no. 120, lent by the Calumet Club. Art Institute of Chicago, Loan Exhibition of American Paintings, Jan. 8–28, 1914, cat. no. 15. Art Institute of Chicago, Special Exhibition of the Works in the Friends of American Art Collection, May 15–June 15, 1919. Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1– Nov. 1, 1933, cat. no. 424, ill. Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1– Nov. 1, 1934, cat. no. 378. Indianapolis, Ind, John Herron Art Museum, Retrospective Exhibition of Portraits by Gilbert Stuart, 1755–1828, Jan. 1–Feb. 8, 1942, ct. no. 25, ill. Michigan, Grand Rapids Art Gallery, Art of the American Colonial and Revolutionary Periods, Sept. 26–Oct. 31, 1943. WI, Milwaukee Art Institute, Nineteenth Century American Masters, Feb. 20–Mar. 28, 1948, no cat. Art Institute of Chicago, From Colony to Nation: An Exhibition of American Painting, Silver and Architecture from 1650 to the War of 1812, Apr. 21–June 19, 1949, cat. no. 112. Art Institute of Chicago, Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950, Oct. 1, 1959–Jan. 10, 1960, no cat. [downloadable checklist available]. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gilbert Stuart, Oct. 18, 2004 – Jan. 16, 2005, The National Gallery of Art, Mar. 27, 2004 – July 31, 2005

    Publications

    George C. Mason, The Life and Works of Gilbert Stuart (1879; repr., Burt Franklin Reprints, 1972), 170–171. Justin H. Smith, “The Prologue of the American Revolution,” Century Magazine, 65, 4 (February 1903), 543. “Important Pictures in New York Galleries,” Fine Arts Journal 29 (1913), 717–722. “Notes: Gifts of the Friends,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago, 7, 4 (April 1914), 4, ill. p. 55. Lorinda Munson Bryant, American Pictures and their Painters (John Lane company, 1917), 30–32. Lawrence Park, Gilbert Stuart (William Edwin Rudge, 1926) v.1, no. 224, 268–269. Eugen Neuhaus, The History and Ideals of American Art (Stanford University Press, 1931), ill. p. 32. C.J. Bulliet, Art Masterpieces in a Century of Progress Fine Arts Exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago (North–Mariano Press, c. 1933). David A. Hanks, “American Paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago,” Magazine Antiques (September 1973), 408–417, ill. p. 417. Richard McLanathan, Gilbert Stuart (Abrams, 1986), 86, ill. Milo M. Naeve, “The Edwardian Era and Patrons of American Art at the Art Institute of Chicago: The Birth of a Tradition,” America’s International Exposition of Fine Art and Antiques (The Lakeside Group, 1988), fig. 6, 23, ill. Art Institute of Chicago, Master Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago (Boston and Toronto: Little, brown, 1988), 77, ill. Judith A. Barter, et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), 138–9, ill.

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Gilbert Stuart (American, 1755–1828)
    Date
    1812
    Medium
    Oil on mahogany panel
    Dimensions
    71.5 × 57.1 cm (28 3/16 × 22 1/2 in.)
    Type
    Painting
    Classification
    painting
    Place
    Roxbury
    Department
    Arts of the Americas
    Credit line
    Friends of American Art Collection
    Accession no.
    1913.793

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