David West, Sr. (1765-1810), c. 1796

| Christian Gullager (1759-1826)
| oil on canvas
| 26 x 20 (66.0400 x 50.800)
| Bequest of Henry Winchester Cunningham, 1930
| Weis 139

Ex. Coll.: Sitter; to his wife Abigail Leonard West; to her daughter Abigail West Cunningham (1796-1876); to one of her sons James, Horace, or David; to James's son, the donor.

Exhibitions:
1949, ‘Christian Gullager,’ Worcester Art Museum, no. 23.
1971, ‘Early American Paintings from the Worcester Art Museum and the American Antiquarian Society,’ Worcester Art Museum.

Publications:
Louisa Dresser, ‘Christian Gullager,’ Art in America (July 1946), 166-67.
Scott E. Casper, Joanne D. Chaison, and Jeffrey D. Groves, eds., Perspectives on American Book History (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2002), image archive.

 

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