Abigail Leonard West (1796-1879), c. 1796

| Christian Gullager (1759-1826)
| oil on canvas
| 21 x 17 (53.3400 x 43.1800)
| Bequest of Henry Winchester Cunningham, 1930
| Weis 137

Ex. Coll.: David and Abigail West; to their daughter the sitter; to one of her sons: James, Horace, or David; to James’s son, the donor.

Exhibitions:
1948, ‘Early American Portraits of Children,’ New York Historical Society.
1949, ‘Christian Gullager,’ Worcester Art Museum, no. 25.
1971, ‘Early American Paintings from the Collections of the Worcester Art Museum and the American Antiquarian Society,’ Worcester Art Museum.
1977, ‘Wellsprings of a Nation,’ Worcester Art Museum, no. 263.

Publications:
Louisa Dresser, ‘Christian Gullager,’ Art in America (July 1949), 170-71.
Rodger D. Parker, Wellsprings of a Nation (Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1977), 139.

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