Alexander Grant

David Cheseborough, Newport, Rhode Island, and Stonington, CT, 1754

by descent to Betsey Smith Williams, Stonington, CT, from 1833

by descent to Abigail Cheseborough, Newport, Rhode Island, from 1782 or by descent to Elizabeth Grant Smith, Groton, CT, from 1782

by descent to Deacon David Cheseborough Smith, Stonington, CT, from 1808

Gavin Maitland Goodfellow, Cosmo Alexander, The Art, Life, and Times of Cosmo Alexander (1724–1772), Portrait Painter in Scotland and America (M.A. diss., University of Edinburgh, 1955, submitted 1961), 157, pl. 19, cat. no. 55.

Virgil Barker, American Painting (Macmillan, 1950), 117.

James Thomas Flexner, America’s Old Masters (Viking Press, 1939), 259–61.

Newport, Rhode Island, Art Association of Newport, Retrospective Exhibition of the Work of Artists Identified with Newport, Rhode Island Tercentenary, July 25–Aug16, 1936, p. 10, cat. 11.

Lawrence Park, Gilbert Stuart, An Illustrated Descriptive List of his Works (William Edwin Rudge, 1926), vol. 1, 25, 357.

Stonington, Conn., Stonington Village Improvement Society, Exhibition of Early American Portraits, Aug. 20–?, 1925, cat. 4.

William Dunlap, A History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States (1834; repr. Boston: C.E. Goodspeed and Company, 1918), vol. 1, 197–99, 202.

by descent to Bessie S. Williams Sherman, Chicago, from 1860 to 1916

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), 71–75, no. 18.

Milo M. Naeve, The Classical Presence in American Art (Art Institute of Chicago, 1978), 15, cat. 18.

Milo M. Naeve, “Cosmo Alexander’s Portrait of Alexander Grant,” Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago 72 (Jan./Feb. 1978), 8–10, ill. p. 9.

Vose Galleries, Boston, 1977

the Art Institute of Chicago, 1977.

Pam McLellan Geddy, “Cosmo Alexander’s Travels and Patrons in America," Magazine Antiques 112 (Nov. 1977), 972–77.