Notes
Christopher Columbus Baldwin,
Weis #4, Hewes #2
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Ex. Coll.: possibly owned by the sitter's father Eden
Baldwin
(b. 1768),
to his granddaughter, the donor.
Publications:
Louisa Dresser, 'Portraits Owned by the American Antiquarian
Society,'
The Magazine Antiques 95 (November 1969): 725-26.
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Christopher Columbus Baldwin, Weis
#3, Hewes #3
Exhibited:
1952, "Chester Harding 1792-1886," Connecticut Valley
Historical
Museum, Springfield, Massachusetts, no. 2.
Publications:
Diary of Christopher Columbus Baldwin, 1829-1835
(Worcester: American
Antiquarian Society, 1901): frontispiece.
Leah Lipton, A Truthful Likeness, Chester Harding and his
Portraits (Washington,
D.C.: National Portrait Gallery, 1985): 135.
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Aaron Bancroft, Weis
#5, Hewes #4
Ex. Coll.: Sitter, to his daughter the donor.
Publication:
Louisa Dresser, 'Portraits Owned by the American Antiquarian
Society,'
The Magazine Antiques 95 (November 1969): 725.
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Edward Dillingham Bangs,
Weis #6, Hewes #5
Ex. Coll.: sitter, willed to his wife Mary Grosvenor Bangs for
her lifetime,
then to the American Antiquarian Society.
Publications:
Dean Dudley, The Bangs Family in America (Montrose,
Massachusetts: self
published, 1896), 48.
Leah Lipton, A Truthful Likeness, Chester Harding and his
Portraits (Washington,
D.C.: National Portrait Gallery, 1985), 136.
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Abijah Bigelow,
Weis
#11, Hewes #9
Ex. Coll.: Sitter to his daughter Sarah Bigelow Adams
(1805-1886), probably
to her granddaughter Elizabeth Bigelow Updike (1831-96), owned by
her
son Daniel Berkeley Updike (1860-1941).
Publications:
Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society
40(October
1930): 305.
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Sophia Dwight Foster Burnside,
Weis #18, Hewes #16
Ex. Coll.: sitter's family, to her grandniece, the donor.
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John Chandler,
Weis #28, Hewes #24
Ex. Coll.: Sitter, to his second wife Mary Church Chandler (d.
1783),
to her step-daughter, the donor.
Publications:
William Lincoln and Charles Hershey, History of Worcester
(Worcester:
Charles Hersey, 1862), 231. Engraving by Hezekiah Wright (b.
1828).
George Chandler, The Chandler Family (Worcester,
Massachusetts, 1872,
1883), 227. Wright engraving.
Andrew McFarland Davis, Confiscation of John Chandler's
Estate (Boston:
Houghton, Mifflin Co., 1907), frontispiece.
Clarence W. Bowen, History of Woodstock, Connecticut (Norwood,
Massachusetts:
Plimpton Press, 1926), 142.
Edward A. Jones, Loyalists of Massachusetts
(London: St. Catherine's Press,
1930), 81, pl. 10 (incorrectly as by Winthrop Chandler).
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Benjamin Chapin, Hewes #29
Ex. Coll.: sitter, to his wife Alice Chapin in 1838, to their son
Benjamin
Chapin, through the family to Alice and Martha Chapin, to their
cousins
the donors, c. 1945.
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Rebecca Faulkner Foster Clarke, Weis#
33, Hewes #52
Ex. Coll.: Commissioned by the sitter's sister Mary Stiles Foster
(Dunn)
(1830-1900), to her son the donor.
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John Davis, Weis
#46, Hewes #40
Exhibitions:
1864, 'National Sailor's Fair,' Boston Athenaeum.
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Rebecca Faulkner Foster, Weis #59, Hewes #51
Ex. Coll.: sitter, probably to her daughter Sophia Dwight Foster
Burnside
(1787-1871), through the family to her grandniece, the donor.
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Eleanor Grace Goddard Daniels, Hewes #56
Gift of Bruce Daniels and Eleanor Daniels
Bronson-Hodge,
2001
Ex. Coll.: Harry W. and George Grace W. Goddard to
their
daughter, Eleanor Grace Goddard Daniels to their daughter, the
sitter,
to her children, the donors
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Marion Williams Goddard, Hewes #59
Gift of Bruce Daniels and Eleanor Daniels Bronson-Hodge, 2001
Ex. Coll: Harry W. and Georgia Grace W. Goddard to their
daughter, Eleanor
Grace Goddard Daniels to her children, the donors.
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Georgia Grace Watson Goddard, Hewes #57
Gift of Bruce Daniels and Eleanor Daniels
Bronson-Hodge,
2001
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Harry Williams Goddard, Hewes #58
Gift of Bruce Daniels and Eleanor Daniels
Bronson-Hodge,
2001
Signed on verso: "Harry W. Goddard Esq./Painted by Arthur M.
Hazard/Carnegie
Hall/New York/1927."
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Samuel Foster Haven, Weis
#65, Hewes #65
Ex. Coll.: commissioned by the donors, 1878.
Exhibitions:
1891, 'Portraits by American Artists,' Worcester Public
Library.
Publications:
Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society (April 1879):
heliotype
frontispiece.
Clarence W. Bowen, History of Woodstock, Connecticut, 8
vols., (Norwood,
Mass.: Plimpton Press, 1932) 4:548.
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Waldo Lincoln,
Weis #73, Hewes #74
Ex. Coll.: commissioned by fifteen members of the American
Antiquarian
Society, December 1929.
Exhibitions:
1929, 'Recent Works by Frank O. Salisbury,' Duveen Gallery, New
York.
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Thaddeus MacCarty, Weis #74, Hewes #75
Ex Coll.: Maccarty's descendants, given to the American
Antiquarian Society
by sitter's great-great-granddaughter Mrs. Harry K. Newcomb in
1867, returned
to the family at the request of her niece Mary Foster Dunn in
1878, to
her son, the donor.
Publications:
Clifford K. Shipton, Sibley's Harvard Graduates 10 (Boston:
Massachusetts
Historical Society, 1958), opp. 384.
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William Paine,
Weis #93, Hewes #93
Ex. Coll.: sitter to his son Frederick William Paine, possibly to
his
son George S. Paine, through the family to the donor who, in 1911,
placed
the canvas on loan to the American Antiquarian Society.
Exhibitions:
1891, "Portraits by American Artists," Worcester Public
Library.
Publications:
Clifford K. Shipton, Sibley's Harvard Graduates 17
(Boston: Massachusetts
Historical Society, 1975): 359.
Leah Lipton, A Truthful Likeness: Chester Harding and His
Portraits (Washington,
D.C.: National Portrait Gallery, 1985), 173.
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James Porter, Weis
#96, Hewes #96
Ex. Coll.: sitter, through the family to his granddaughter Mrs.
Henry
D. Anderson, to her friend the donor.
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Arthur Prentice Rugg Weis #99, Hewes #100
Exhibited:
1940, 'Work of Harry B. Chatterton,' Clinton
(Massachusetts) Savings Bank.
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Stephen Salisbury II Weis # 100
Exhibitions:
1891, 'Portraits by American Artists,' Worcester Public
Library.
Publications:
Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society (October 1878):
frontispiece.
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Lydia Stiles Foster, Weis #55
Ex. Coll.: sitter, to her daughter Mary Stiles Foster Dunn (b.
1830),
to her son the donor.
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The Foster Children, Weis #53
Ex. Coll.: given by the artist in 1838 to Lydia Stiles Foster, to
her
daughter Mary Stiles Foster Dunn on January 1, 1883, to her son
the donor
on his twenty-first birthday, December 11, 1886.
Exhibitions:
1957,'New England Miniatures,'Museum of Fine Arts Boston, no.
62.
1990, 'Tokens of Affection: The Portrait Miniature in America,'
Metropolitan
Museum of Art.
Publications:
Louisa Dresser, 'Portraits Owned by the American Antiquarian
Society,'
The Magazine Antiques 95 (November 1969): 726.
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Lydia Stiles, Weis #56
Ex. Coll.: possibly owned by the sitter's parents John and Mary
Stiles
(cat. #107, 108), to the sitter, to her daughter Rebecca Faulkner
Foster
Clarke (cat. #52), to her daughter the donor.
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Lydia Stiles, Weis #57
Ex. Coll.: sitter, to her daughter Mary Stiles Dunn (b. 1830), to
her
son the donor.
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John Stiles Weis
#107
Ex. Coll.: sitters, possibly owned by their daughter Lydia Stiles
Foster
(1806-87), owned by her grandson, the donor.
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Mary Stiles Weis
#108
Ex. Coll.: sitters, possibly owned by their daughter Lydia Stiles
Foster
(1806-87), owned by her grandson, the donor.
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Mary Maccarty Stiles Weis
# 89
Ex. Coll.: possibly owned by the sitter's parents John and Mary
Stiles
(cats. #107, 108), to the sitter, to her niece Mary Stiles Foster
Dunn
(1830-1900), to her son the donor.
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Mary Maccarty Stiles Weis
# 87
Ex. Coll.: sitter, probably to her sister Lydia Stiles Foster
(cat. #49),
to her daughter, Rebecca Faulkner Foster Clarke, to her daughter
the donor.
Exhibitions:
1990, "Tokens of Affection: The Portrait Miniature in
America,"
Metropolitan Museum of Art.
1993, "Classical Taste in America, 1800-1840," Baltimore
Museum
of Art.
Publications:
Wendy A. Cooper, Classical Taste in America, 1800-1840 (New York:
Baltimore
Museum of Art and Abbeville Press, 1993): 218.
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Mary Stiles Newcomb
Weis
#88
Ex. Coll.: sitters, possibly to Lydia Stiles Foster, to her
grandson,
the donor.
Exhibitions:
Mary Stiles Newcomb:
1993, 'Classical Taste in America, 1800-1840,' Baltimore Museum
of Art.
Publications:
Mary Stiles Newcomb:
Wendy A. Cooper, Classical Taste in America, 1800-1840 (New York:
Baltimore
Museum of Art and Abbeville Press, 1993),218.
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Henry Newcomb
Weis#
86
Ex. Coll.: sitters, possibly to Lydia Stiles Foster, to her
grandson,
the donor.
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Marcus McCorison
Exhibitions:
1997, "Portraits North," Francesca Anderson Fine Art,
Lexington,
Massachusetts.
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Charles Nichols Weis
#90
Ex. Coll: sitter to his children, the donors.
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Isaiah Thomas miniature, Weis #123
Ex. Coll.: sitter, bequeathed to his granddaughter Elizabeth
Cornelia
Simmons Randall (1813-91), to her daughters Clara Elizabeth and
Mary Thomas
Randall, purchased from them by the Boston antique dealer Otto
Wiecker,
sold to the donor in 1914.(1)
Publications:
Freemason's Magazine 2 (November 1811): 81, engraved by William R.
Jones.
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Isaiah Thomas miniature, Weis #120
Ex. Coll.: early provenance unknown, owned by the sitter's
granddaughters
Clara Elizabeth and Mary Thomas Randall, purchased from them by
the Boston
antique dealer Otto Wiecker, sold to William Sloane around 1914,
to his
daughter the donor.(2)
Publications:
Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, 30(October 1920):
opp.
258.(3)
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Isaiah Thomas Pastel, Weis # 119
Ex. Coll.: sitters, owned by their granddaughter Elizabeth
Cornelia Simmons
Randall (1813-1891), to her daughters Clara Elizabeth and Mary
Thomas
Randall, around 1914 to Frances Hill Bigelow, sold via the Copley
Gallery
in 1928 to the donor.(1)
Exhibitions:
Isaiah Thomas portrait:
1969, "A Society's Chief Joys," Grolier Club, New
York.
1975, "Paul Revere's Boston," Museum of Fine Arts, no.
254.
Publications:
Isaiah Thomas Portrait:
A Society's Chief Joys, (Worcester: American Antiquarian Society,
1969):
9.
Richard Steele, "Isaiah Thomas," in Worcester People and
Places,
(Worcester: Worcester Historical Museum, 1975): 25.
Paul Revere's Boston, (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1975): no.
254.
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Mary Thomas Fowle Thomas
Weis # 126
Ex. Coll.: sitters, owned by their granddaughter Elizabeth
Cornelia Simmons
Randall (1813-1891), to her daughters Clara Elizabeth and Mary
Thomas
Randall, around 1914 to Frances Hill Bigelow, sold via the Copley
Gallery
in 1928 to the donor.(1)
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Isaiah Thomas Pastel, Weis # 118
Ex. Coll.: sitter, in 1831 willed to his granddaughter Hannah
Weld Thomas
Crocker (1803-1827) who was already deceased, possibly owned by
her husband
Samuel Leonard Crocker, owned by his daughter Mary Caroline
Crocker Couch
in the 1840s, to her son, one of the donors.
Publications:
Charles L. Nichols, "The Portraits of Isaiah Thomas,"
Proceedings
of the American Antiquarian Society 30(October 1920): opp. 251, as
by
James Sharples.
Charles L. Nichols, The Portraits of Isaiah Thomas (Worcester:
American
Antiquarian Society, 1921): frontispiece, as by Sharples.
Annie R. Marble, From 'Prentice to Patron (New York: D. Appleton
Press,
1935): opp. 264, as by Sharples.
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Mary Weld Thomas
Ex. Coll.: sitter, to her son Benjamin Franklin Thomas, to his
daughter
Agnes Park Thomas Olney (1837-1919), to her daughter Agnes Olney
Minot
(1861-1944), purchased from her estate in 1944 by Maurice Rubin of
Colonial
House Antiques in Boston, sold by him in 1948 to donor.
Publications:
Benjamin Hill, The Diary of Isaiah Thomas (Worcester: American
Antiquarian
Society, 1909), opp. 20.
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Isaiah Thomas by Greenwood
Weis #117
Ex. Coll.: commissioned by the sitter, 1818.
Exhibitions:
1921-22, "Loan Exhibition of English and American Paintings
of the
Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries," Worcester Art
Museum.
1971, Chestnut Street Congregational Church, Worcester.
Publications:
John Fiske, Critical Period in American History (Boston:
Houghton
Mifflin,
1898), 171.
Alice M. Earle, Two Centuries of Costume 2 (New York: Macmillan
Co., 1903):
410.
William Dunlap, History of the Rise of the Progress of the Arts of
Design
in the United States 3 (New York: George P. Scott, Co., 1918):
310.
Charles L. Nichols, "The Portraits of Isaiah Thomas,"
Proceedings
of the American Antiquarian Society 10 (October 1920): 251-62.(1)
Annie R. Marble, From 'Prentice to Patron (New York: D. Appleton
Press,
1935): frontis.
Louisa Dresser, "Portraits Owned by the American Antiquarian
Society,"
The Magazine Antiques 95 (November 1969): 725.
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Isaiah Thomas Jr.
Weis
#124
Ex. Coll.: sitter, to Isaiah Thomas, Sr., to his grandson
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas (1813-78), to his daughter Agnes Park Thomas Olney
(1837-1919),
to her daughter Agnes Olney Minot (1861-1944), purchased from her
estate
by her nephew and nieces, the donors.
Exhibitions:
1971, Chestnut Street Congregational Church, Worcester.
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Isaiah Thomas Sculpture
Ex. Coll.: artist, early ownership unknown, acquired by the
donor's father
in the twentieth century.
Exhibitions:
May-June 1859, studio of the artist, Worcester.
June 1859, Antiquarian Hall, Worcester.
1985, 'B. H. Kinney. Gravestone Carver and Sculptor,'
Worcester Historical Museum.
Publications:
William D. Wallace, B. H. Kinney, Gravestone Carver and Sculptor,
(Worcester:
Worcester Historical Museum, 1985): 31.
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Isaiah Thomas Sculpture
Weis # 122
Ex. Coll.: commissioned by the Society in 1859.
Exhibitions:
1985, 'B. H. Kinney, Gravestone Carver and Sculptor,' Worcester
Historical
Museum.
Publications:
Charles Hersey and William Lincoln, History of Worcester
(Worcester: Charles
Hersey, 1862): opp. 240, engraving.
William D. Wallace, B. H. Kinney, Gravestone Carver and Sculptor,
(Worcester:
Worcester Historical Museum, 1985): 31.
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Henry Wheeler, Hewes #149
Ex. Coll.: sitter, possibly to his daughter Fannie Thaxter
Wheeler (1857-1941),
owned by her daughter F. Louisa Eaton (1884-1966), to her sister,
the
donor.
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Calvin Willard, Weis #145, Hewes #151
Ex. Coll.: Sitter; to his second wife, the donor.
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