David West, Jr. (1790-1825), c. 1796

| Christian Gullager (1759-1826)
| oil on canvas
| 21 x 17 (53.3400 x 43.1800)
| Bequest of Henry Winchester Cunningham, 1930
| Weis 140

Ex. Coll.: David and Abigail West; to their daughter Abigail West Cunningham; in 1879 to one of her three sons, James, Horace or David Cunningham; to James's son, the donor.

Exhibitions:
1949, ‘Christian Gullager,’ Worcester Art Museum, no. 24.
1971, ‘Early American Paintings from the Collections of the Worcester Art Museum and the American Antiquarian Society,’ Worcester Art Museum.
1976, ‘Christian Gullager: Portrait Painter to Federal America,’ National Portrait Gallery, no. 25.
1977, ‘Wellsprings of a Nation,’ Worcester Art Museum, no. 262.

Publications:
Louisa Dresser, ‘Christian Gullager,’ Art in America (July 1949), 168-69.
Marvin Sadik, Christian Gullager: Portrait Painter to Federal America, (Washington, DC: National Portrait Gallery, 1976), 96-7.
Rodger D. Parker, Wellsprings of a Nation (Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1977), 139.

 

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