Robert Bailey Thomas (1766-1846), 1836

| Zedekiah Belknap (1781-1858)
| oil on canvas
| 32 1/2 x 27 (82.5500 x 68.5800)
| signed on verso, under lining: "Portrait of Robert B. Thomas, Esq. Z. Belknap Pinxt. Nov. A.D. 1836," 1 and inscribed on recto, l.r.: "Robert B. Thomas, Esq."
| Gift of Helen M. Kaven, 1933
| Weis 116

Ex. Coll.: sitters, to Hannah Beaman Thomas's niece Fidelia Beaman Pierce (1808-1866), to her daughter Delia Pierce Hardy (b. 1835), to her husband Follansbe (Frank) C. Hardy (1829-1916), in 1916 to his daughter Bertha M. Hardy, sold around 1919 to Martha Esther Thomas Kidder (1836-1921), to her daughter the donor.

Exhibitions:
1893-1916, on loan to the Worcester Society of Antiquities.
c. 1919-1933, on loan to the Worcester Historical Society.
1977, "Portraits of Zedekiah Belknap," Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center.

Publications:
Old Farmer's Almanac 150(1942): 32.
Edward Park, "Whither the Weather, 'Almanac'-style," Smithsonian Magazine 23 (November 1992): 93.

 

| PDF of full entry & biography

1. Frederick Weis, "Portraits in the American Antiquarian Society," Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 56 (April 1946): 111.