Art Institute of Chicago
Major-General Henry Dearborn
Gilbert Stuart (American, 1755–1828)LinkedCulture matchlcp-0a07e8ef1af5
- Date
- 1812
- Medium
- Oil on mahogany panel
- Culture
- Roxbury
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 69619
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
Gilbert Stuart’s idealized portrayal of Major-General Henry Dearborn presents an aging, yet robust military leader invigorated by power and the challenge of the War of 1812. A Revolutionary War hero who served as secretary of war during Thomas Jefferson’s two presidential terms (1801–09), Dearborn continued his service as senior major-general in the 1812 campaign. This work is one of several likenesses Stuart executed of American military and political men, among them his well-known depictions of George Washington. Stuart painted directly on the panel or canvas over the course of several sittings, capturing the new country’s fervent nationalism in skillful, vigorous portraits.
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- Credit line
- Friends of American Art Collection
- Provenance
- Henry Dearborn, Boston and Roxbury, MA, 1812; by descent to Henry Alexander Scammell Dearborn, Roxbury, MA, 1829; by descent to Henry George Raleigh Dearborn (died 1884), Roxbury, MA, 1851; by descent to Mrs. Henry George Raleigh Dearborn, Roxbury, MA 1884; sold to the Chicago Commercial Club, 1886; given by them to Calumet Club, Chicago, 1886; H.L. Pratt, Brooklyn, N.Y., 1912; M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1913; Henry Reinhardt Galleries, Chicago, 1914; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1914.
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- Object type
- AAT300033618
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