Caroline LeRoy Webster (1797-1882), Second Wife of Daniel Webster
George Peter Alexander Healy, American, 1813 - 1894
about 1845
Oil on canvas
Overall: 30 1/4 × 25 3/16 in. (76.9 × 63.9 cm)
Frame: 38 × 34 in. (96.5 × 86.4 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund
P.954.6
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Painting
Research Area
Painting
Not on view
Inscriptions
Label on reverse: Portrait of Mrs. Daniel Webster/ painted by Healy in 1847--and / presented by Mrs. Webster to Mrs. / L(--) born Dec. 1848. Label on reverse: Given by Mrs. Sanborn / to Mrs. Ezekial Webster / by her to Charles W. Webster / by him to Edward Webster: / #17957.
Exhibition History
American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 9-December 9, 2007.
Director's Choice, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 10-July 10, 1966.
Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 4, 2014-July 12, 2015.
Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 26, 1996-May 11, 1997.
Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 21, 2005-February 8, 2006.
The Godlike Black Dan, A Selection of Portraits from Life in Commemoration of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Daniel Webster, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., June 4-November 28, 1982.
Women's Clothing and Accessories: 1800-1930, Rotunda, Jaffe-Friede, Strauss and Barrows Galleries, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 7, 1979-January 27, 1980.
Publication History
James Barber and Frederick Voss, The Godlike Black Dan, A Selection of Portraits from Life in Commemoration of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Daniel Webster, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1982, p. 47.
Bonnie Carman Harvey, Daniel Webster: "Liberty and Union, Now and Forever", Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers, Inc., 2001, 112 pp., ill. p. 70.
Barbara J. MacAdam, American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Muesum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2007, p. 38, no. 19.
Provenance
Vose Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts; sold to present collection, 1954.
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