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Gilbert Stuart 1755-1828
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Description
- Gilbert Stuart
- Portrait of Captain James T. Gerry
- Signed and titled Captain James T. Gerry / by / Gilbert Stuart on the reverse
- oil on canvas, in a 19th century coved giltwood frame
- 27 by 23 in.
- 68.6 by 58.4 cm
Provenance
Misses Gerry, New Haven, Connecticut (sisters of the sitter)
Thomas Gerry Townsend
Sale: Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., New York, April 20, 1979, lot 6
Exhibited
Boston, Exhibition of Portraits by Gilbert Stuart, 1828, no. 146
Literature
George C. Mason, The Life and Works of Gilbert C. Stuart, New York, 1879, p. 184
Lawrence Park, Gilbert Stuart: An Illustrated Descriptive List of His Work, New York, 1926, no. 324, p. 346
Lawrence Park, Gilbert Stuart: An Illustrated Descriptive List of His Work, New York, 1926, no. 324, p. 346
Catalogue Note
James T. Gerry (1796-1854) was the son of Elbridge Gerry (1744-1814), a signer of the Declaration of Independence and Vice President of the United States from 1813 to 1814. James T. Gerry was lost at sea in the sloop-of-war Albany, the vessel he commanded.