Painting
- Title:
- Daniel Webster
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 2012.028
- Creator:
- Hoit, Albert Gallatin (1809-1856)
- Place of Origin:
- Boston, MA
- Date:
- circa 1850
- Description:
- Portrait of Daniel Webster, oil on canvas, by Albert Gallatin Hoit (1809-1856), c. 1850. Half-length portrait of seated balding man facing right. Right hand on chair arm. Red drapery in upper left. Green-brown background. Signed "A.G. Hoit" in black paint on reverse of canvas, upper right. Number "18.1.1" inscribed in ink on back of stretcher, lower left. Framed.
- Material:
- Textile
- Dimensions:
- H-36 W-29 inches
- Provenance:
- Albert Gallatin Hoit painted this portrait for Paran Stevens (1802-1872). The son of Josiah and Matilda (Cooke) Stevens, Paran Stevens was born in Claremont, NH. He became a wealthy hotel owner in Boston and New York City and a patron of the arts. The portrait hung in the Revere House hotel in Boston and was the basis for William Sharp's early 1850s lithographic portrait of Daniel Webster (see 1995.572.01 and 2012.501.1136), as well as H. W. Smith's engraving (see 2016.024.02).
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Purchase, Katharine Prentis Murphy Fund, and partial gift of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Thorner
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