Exhibition of Portraits Painted by the Late Gilbert Stuart, Esq.

About the exhibition

The Boston Athenaeum presented portraits by the late Gilbert Stuart in 1828. The documented paintings include Edward Stow, Benjamin Tappan, Sarah Homes Tappan and Samuel Alleyne Otis. Separate catalogue numbers identify these portraits within the larger memorial selection. Examples securely identified in the museum’s object histories are Gilbert Stuart’s Edward Stow (c. 1803; oil on wood) and Gilbert Stuart’s Benjamin Tappan (1814; oil on wood). The connected works form a partial checklist; exact opening and closing days are not established by this evidence.

Also recorded as: Exhibition of Portraits painted by the late Gilbert Stuart, Esq., Boston Athenaeum