Moses T. Hunter
c. 1800
Artist, American, 1767 - 1822
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Mrs. Francis Washington Weeks and Miss Nancy Hunter Weeks)
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Dimensions
overall: 68.58 × 58.42 cm (27 × 23 in.)
framed: 80.96 × 69.85 × 3.18 cm (31 7/8 × 27 1/2 × 1 1/4 in.) -
Accession
2016.23.7
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Commissioned by the sitter's father, Moses Hunter [1753-1798], Martinsburg, West Virginia;[1] by inheritance to his wife, Ann Stephen Dandridge Hunter [1752-1834];[2] by inheritance to her granddaughter, Ann Stephen Hunter Weeks [1819-1896, Mrs. Alfred Conrad Weeks], St. Mary's Parish, Louisiana, and Washington; by inheritance to her son, Beverley Warner Weeks [1862-1924], Fernandina, Florida; by inheritance to his daughters, Frances Washington Weeks [1891-1979], Washington, and Nancy Hunter Weeks [1898-1960]; gift 18 July 1960 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2016 by the National Gallery of Art.
[1] At this time Martinsburg was in the state of Virginia.
[2] Moses Hunter was Ann Stephen Dandridge's second husband, who she married in 1787. Her first husband was Alexander Spottswood Dandridge (1752-1785), who had been an aide to his brother-in-law, Patrick Henry (married to his sister Dorothea), early in the American Revolution.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1963
A Century and a Half of American Painting, A Special Exhibition on Loan from the The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Dulin Gallery of Art, Knoxville, 3 April - 13 May 1963, no. 1.
1981
Charles Peale Polk, 1776-1822: A Limner and His Likenesses, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, Williamsburg, Virginia; Dayton Art Institute; Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga; Heritage Plantation of Sandwich, Massachusetts, 18 July 1981 - 15 October 1982, no. 116, repro., as Moses Theodore Hunter.
1983
Three American Families: A Tradition of Artistic Pursuit, Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York; Whitney Museum at Fairfied County, Connecticut, 8 September 1983 - 11 January 1984.
1996
The Peale Family: Creation of an American Legacy, 1770-1870, Philadelphia Museum of Art; M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 1996-1997, unnumbered checklist.
Bibliography
1966
Phillips, Dorothy W. A Catalogue of the Collection of American Paintings in The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Vol. 1: Painters born before 1850. Washington, 1966: 36.
2011
Cash, Sarah, ed. Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Washington, 2011: 313, repro.
Wikidata ID
Q46626084