Gilbert Stuart 1755-1828

By descent in the family of the sitter, New Jersey
Relative of James Lenox (gift from the above)
James Lenox, New York, circa 1860 (gift from the above)
Gift to the present owner from the above, 1876

George C. Mason, The Life and Works of Gilbert Stuart, New York, 1879, p. 156
Exhibition of Portraits by Gilbert Stuart, Boston, Massachusetts, 1880, no. 110, p. 33
Lenox Library, A Guide to the Paintings and Sculpture Exhibited to the Public, 1878, no.  71
The New York Public Library, Catalogue of Paintings in the Lenox Gallery, 1897, no. 63
Charles Merrill Mount, Gilbert Stuart, A Biography, New York, vol. 1, 1926, pp. 200-201, illustrated
Cuthbert Lee, Early American Portrait Painters, New Haven, Connecticut, 1929, pp. 45-46

John Campbell (c. 1756-1817), a planter, was born in Jamaica, West Indies.  Campbell represented the parish of Trelawny in the Jamaica House of Assembly.  He was one of the largest landowners in the area and owned the estates of Kinloss, Duanville and Campbell.  Campbell also had ties to the United States and he kept an estate at Phill's Hill, New York.  According to George Mason in The Life and Works of Gilbert Stuart, this portrait was probably painted circa 1810 in Boston and the portrait remained in the Campbell family until before 1860.  James Lenox was given the portrait by a relative, who had acquired the portrait from Campbell's descendents in New Jersey.