Thomas Whittemore
1844
Artist, American, 1804 - 1887
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 75.9 x 63.8 cm (29 7/8 x 25 1/8 in.)
framed: 97.8 x 87 x 7 cm (38 1/2 x 34 1/4 x 2 3/4 in.) -
Accession
1950.8.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
The sitter [1800-1861]; by descent to his grandson, Thomas Whittemore [1871-1950];[1] gift 1950 to NGA.
[1] Following the death of the elder Thomas Whittemore in 1861, both this portrait and its pendant (NGA 1950.8.2, Lovice Corbett Whittemore [Mrs. Thomas Whittemore]) presumably remained in the possession of his widow until her death in 1882, at which point they likely passed to her only surviving son, Joseph Whittemore [d. 1894] and subsequently to his wife, Elizabeth Whittemore [d. 1904] (who, in her husband's will, docket no. 37300, Middlesex County [Massachusetts] Probate Records, was named the recipient of all his personal property). Their sole surviving child was Thomas, the donor of both pictures to the NGA. See B.B. Whittemore, A Genealogy of Several Branches of the Whittemore Family, Nashua, New Hampshire, 1893: 27.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1843
Possibly Second Exhibition of the Boston Artists' Association, 1843, no. 61, as Portrait owned by "Rev. T. Whittemore".
Bibliography
1968
Warner, Deborah Jean. Alvan Clark & Sons, Artists in Optics. Washington, 1968: 119.
1970
American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 42, repro.
1980
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 131, repro.
1992
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 142, repro.
1996
Kelly, Franklin, with Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr., Deborah Chotner, and John Davis. American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part I. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1996: 74-75, repro. 72.
Inscriptions
on reverse: AEt. 44. / 1844
Wikidata ID
Q20187195