General Amasa Davis

Gilbert Stuart American, 1755-1828
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About the Artwork

General Amasa Davis

ca. 1820

Gilbert Stuart

1755-1828

American

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Oil on panel

Unframed: 32 3/4 × 26 1/4 inches (83.2 × 66.7 cm) Framed: 40 1/8 × 34 1/4 × 4 1/8 inches (101.9 × 87 × 10.5 cm)

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American Art before 1950

Gift of Mrs. J. Bell Moran

45.17

Public Domain

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Provenance

the sitter;
1825, his eldest daughter, Lucinda Dorr (Dorchester, Massachusetts,USA);
1843, her daughter, Sarah Whitney Davis Dorr Lemist (Roxbury, Massachusetts, USA);
1915, her daughter, Frances Ann Lemist Wheelock (Roxbury, Massachusetts, USA) .
1915, bought by another of the sitter's great-granddaughters, Ann Lothrop Motley Winthrop (Boston, Massachusetts, USA);
1923, her niece, Maria Davis Motley Park (Groton, Massachusetts, USA).
1927, bought by the sitter's great-great grandson, William H. Murphy (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1945, his daughter, Mrs. J. Bell Moran (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1945-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Exhibition of Portraits Painted by the Late Gilbert Stuart. Exh. cat., Athenaeum. Boston, 1828, no. 106.

Mason, George C. The Life Works of Gilbert Stuart. New York, 1879, p. 168.

Loan Exhibition of Early American Portraits. Exh. cat., Boston Arts Club. Boston, 1911, no. 54.

Park, Lawrence. Gilbert Stuart: An Illustrated Descriptive Lift of his Works Compiled by Lawrence Park with an Account of his Life by John Hill Morgan and an Appreciation by Royal Cortissoz, Vol. 1. New York, 1926, p. 257, no. 212.

Richardson, E.P. “American Portrait Painting.” Bulletin of the DIA 14, 1 (October 1934): pp. 11, 13.

Burroughs, Clyde H. “General Amasa Davis by Gilbert Stuart.” Bulletin of the DIA 25, 3 (1946): pp. 52-53.

Mount, Charles Merrill. Gilbert Stuart, A Biography. New York, 1964, p. 366.

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Gilbert Stuart, General Amasa Davis, ca. 1820, oil on panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. J. Bell Moran, 45.17.

General Amasa Davis
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