Governor John Wentworth (1737-1820)

Inscriptions

Signed and dated, center right: JSC [in monogram] p. [f.(?)] 1769

Course History

HIST 9.1, Empires and Colonies in North America, Paul Musselwhite, Fall 2014

HIST 9.01, America: From Invasion to Independence, Paul Musselwhite, Fall 2019

HIST 5.14, Americas: Invasion to Independence, Paul Musselwhite and Ernesto Mercadeo-Montero, Fall 2022

History 5.14, Americas: From Invasion to Independence, Ernesto Mercado-Montero and Paul Musselwhite, Fall 2023

Exhibition History

Acquisitions 1974-1978, Jaffe-Friede, Srauss and Barrows Galleries, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, (no cat. no.), December 8, 1978-January 21, 1979.

American Art, Colonial to Modern, Israel Sack Gallery and Rush Family Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 26, 2019-April 14, 2019.

American Art, Colonial to Modern, Israel Sack Gallery and Rush Family Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 31, 2019-August 16, 2020.

American Works on Paper to 1950: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Friends and Owen Robertson Cheatham Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 22-December 9, 2007.

From Copley to Dove: American Drawings and Watercolors at Dartmouth, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 11-May 25, 1989 (no cat.).

Hail, Holy Land: The Idea of America, Strauss and Barrows Galleries, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, no. I, June 27-September 7, 1980.

Harrington Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1985.

Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 7, 2010-October 17, 2011.

Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 4, 2014.

Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 1, 1993-March 10, 1996.

Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 20, 1998-August 27, 2000.

John Singleton Copley, 1738-1815, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, no. 35, September 18, 1965-March 6, 1966.

John Singleton Copley, 1738-1815: Loan Exhibition of Paintings, Pastels, Miniatures, and Drawings, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, no. 83, February 1-March 15, 1938.

Marks of Distinction: Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 29-May 29, 2005.

Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Paintings, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 17-November 6, 1982 (no cat.).

Portraits at Dartmouth, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, no. 27, March 10-April 16, 1978.

Reflections of the Original, Copies in the Dartmouth College Collection, Beaumont-May Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 24-July 4, 1978.

Publication History

Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer, produced and directed, in association with Middlemarch Films, Liberty![videorecording] : The American Revolution, Burbank, CA: PBS Home Video, c1997, 3 videocassettes (ca. 6 hrs.)

Carol Troyen, A Choice Gallery of Harvard Tories: John Singleton Copley's Portraits Memoralize a Vanquished Way of Life, Harvard Magazine, March-April, 1997, Cambridge: Harvard Magazine, Inc., 1997, pp. 56-60, ill. p. 56

Alan Emmet, So Fine a Prospect: Historic New England Gardens, Hanover and London: University Press of New England, 1996, ill. p. 18

James S. Aldrich, Foster's Daily Democrat, Dover, N.H.: George J. Foster Co., Inc., 1992

William Hosley, Time Lines: The twists and turns of New Hampshire furniture, Art & Antiques, Atlanta, Georgia: Trans World Publishing, October 1992, p. 55, ill. p. 54.

Michel de Grece, L'Art du Portrait, Paris, France: Le Chene, 1992, p. 113, ill. p. 112

Various Contributors, The State that Made us a Nation: New Hampshire's Celebration of the Bicenntennial of the Constitution, Publisher, Peter Randall for the Bicentennial Constitution, 1989.

"America's First Summer Resort: John Wentworth's 18th Century Plantation in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire". edited by David R. Starbuck, The New Hampshire Archeologist, The New Hampshire Archeological Society, c/o Editor. Vol. 30, No. 1, for 1989.

Jacquelynn Baas, From "a few curious Elephants Bones" to Picasso, Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, September, 1985, Hanover, New Hampshire: Dartmouth College, 1985, pp. 37-43, ill. p. 42

Seacoast Life, Lloyd Marshall, Publisher, Janaury 31, 1986.

Barbara J. MacAdam, "American Paintings in the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College", Antiques Magazine, November, 1985, p. 1021.

Treasures of the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, New York: Hundson Hill Press, 1985, p. 105, no. 87.

Arthur R. Blumenthal, Portraits at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth Collection, 1978, p. 36, no. 27.

Jules David Prown, John Singleton Copley in America, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1966, pp. 67, 116, 234, ill. 229.

Barbara N. Parker and Anne B. Wheeler, John Singleton Copley: American Portraits, Boston, Massachusetts: Museum of Fine Art, 1938, p. 29, no. 83.

W. Jeffrey Bolster, Editor, Cross-Grained & Wily Waters, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Peter E. Randall Publisher, 2002, 214 pp., B&W ill. p. 46.

J. David Hoeveler, Creating the American Mind: Intellect and Politics in the Colonial Colleges, Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2002, 381 pp., ill. p. 207.

Dick Hoefnagel with the collaboration of Virginia L. Close, Eleazar Wheelock and the Adventurous Founding of Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hanover Historical Society, The Durand Press, 2002, 143 pp., ill. p. 57.

Barbara J. MacAdam, Marks of Distinction, Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Manchester, Vermont: Hudson Hills Press, 2005, pp. 16, 18-19, 27, 39, 50, 250, ill. p. 2 (frontispiece), 19, fig. 15, 51, no. 1.

American Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture Including Property from the New York Public Library Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations, New York, Wednesday, November 30, 2005, New York, Sotheby's, Inc: 2005, ill. p. 26 (image used as comparative illustration).

Annual Report 2005-6, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2006, ill. p.48.

Barbara J. MacAdam, American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Muesum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2007, ill. frontispiece and p. 131, no. 103.

Barbara J. MacAdam, Marks of Distinction: Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, American Art Review, Vol. XVII No. 2, April 2005, pp. 86-93, ill p. 86

Arthur R. Blumenthal and Members of the Museum Studies Seminar, Art 84, Reflections of the Original: Copies in the Dartmouth College Collection, Hanover N.H.: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1978, pp. 53-56, ill.

Deborah Child, "A Portrait to be Treasured Once Again," Antiques & Fine Arts, Watertown: Pure Imaging, Inc., Spring 2012, Vol. XI, Issue 6, p. 181.

John R. Stomberg, The Hood Now: Art and Inquiry at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2019, p. 103, ill. plate no. 34.

John W. Tyler, Margaret A. Hogan, and Jane E. Ward, eds., The Correspondence of Thomas Hutchingson, Volume 4: November 1770 - June 1772, Boston: The Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 2022, ill. p. 227.

Provenance

Governor John Wentworth, the sitter, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, November 1769; to Paul Wentworth, cousin of the sitter, London, January 1770; to Mary Wentworth Nelson, a cousin of the sitter; to Dr. James Lloyd (1728–1810) (her husband's nephew); possibly with John Borland, Boston, 1873 (per Perkins, 1873); Gordon Abbott (1904–1973), Manchester, Massachusetts, a direct descendant of Lloyd; to Esther Lowell Abbott (1906–1986), his widow; given to the present collection, in memory of her husband, Gordon Abbott, 1977.

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