About the Artwork
General Henry Knox
ca. 1805
Gilbert Stuart
1755-1828
American
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Oil on academy board
Unframed: 12 1/8 × 10 inches (30.8 × 25.4 cm) Framed: 16 1/8 × 14 1/2 × 2 1/2 inches (41 × 36.8 × 6.4 cm)
Paintings
American Art before 1950
Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund
40.51
Public Domain
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Provenance
General Henry Knox (Thomaston, Maine, USA);1854, his daughter, Mrs. Lucy Knox Thatcher (Thomaston, Maine, USA).
1854-1880, Lawyer Keith (Thomaston, Maine, USA);
1880, his son, Capt. Charles W. Stimpson (Thomaston, Maine, USA).
1903, Charles W. Stimpson (Arlington, Massachusetts, USA).
1903-1905, Vose Galleries (Boston, Massachusetts, USA).
1905-1909, Charles H. Paine (Boston, Massachusetts, USA and Paris, France);
1940, the estate of Mrs. Charles H. Paine.
1940, Vose Galleries (Boston, Massachusetts, USA);
1940-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Brooks, Noah. Life of General Henry Knox. 1900.
Bulletin of the DIA, 20, 5 (February 1941): pp. 43, 46 (ill.).
Stewart, Robert G. Nineteenth-Century Gallery of Distinguished Americans. Washington D.C., 1969, p. 47.
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Credit Line for Reproduction
after Gilbert Stuart, General Henry Knox, ca. 1805, oil on academy board. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund, 40.51.
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