Samuel Dexter (1726-1810), 1792

| John Johnston (1752-1818)
| oil on canvas
| 30 1/4 x 24 3/4 (76.84 x 62.87)
| Bequest of Rebecca Langdon Price Lamson, 1935
| Weis 47

Ex. Coll.: Sitter; to his grandson Samuel Dexter Ward (1789-1871); to his nephew Artemas Ward Lamson (1830-1910); to his widow, the donor.

Exhibitions:
1976, ‘Paintings by New England Provincial Artists,’ Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, no. 59.
1977, ‘Wellsprings of a Nation,’ Worcester Art Museum, no. 264.

Publications:
Bowen, History of Woodstock, 182.
Dedham Historical Register 3 (1892): 45.
Nina Fletcher Little, Paintings by New England Provincial Artists (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1976), 138.
Nina Fletcher Little, ‘Paintings by New England Provincial Artists,’ The Magazine Antiques 110 (November 1976): 994.

 

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