Winthrop Chandler (1747-90), c. 1789

| Winthrop Chandler
| oil on canvas
| 26 1/8 x 23 5/8 (66.36 x 60.01) (framed)
| Gift of Molly Eliza Stark Hillman in memory of her mother, Mary Gleason Chandler Stark, 1925
| Weis 31, 29

Ex. Coll.: Sitters; to their son Winthrop Hilton Chandler (1783-1861); to his son Samuel Chandler (1812-71); to his wife Harriet Rose Chandler (1818-68); about 1868 to a cousin, Mary Gleason Chandler Stark (1841-1921); to the donor.

Exhibitions:
1947, ‘Winthrop Chandler,’ Worcester Art Museum.
1971, ‘Early American Paintings from the Collections of the
Worcester Art Museum and the American Antiquarian Society,’ Worcester Art Museum.
1974, ‘American Self-Portraits, 1670-1973,’ National Portrait
Gallery.
1977, ‘Wellsprings of a Nation,’ Worcester Art Museum.
1989, ‘Winthrop Chandler and His Contemporaries,’ David Schorsch, Inc., New York, no. 11.
1990, ‘Culture and Commerce: The Artisan Entrepreneurs of Worcester County, 1790-1860,’ Fitchburg Art Museum.
1992, ‘Art in Connecticut: Early Days to the Gilded Age,’ William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs.

Publications:
Frank W. Bayley, Little Known American Portrait Painters (Boston: Copley Gallery, 1919), no. 2.
Bowen, History of Woodstock, 1: 131.
George Chandler, The Chandler Family (Worcester: D. Clapp & Son, 1872; Charles Hamilton, 1883), 277. Engraving by Hezekiah Wright Smith (b. 1828).
Dresser, 1969, 722.
William Dunlap, History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States, 3 vols. (New York: George P. Scott & Co., 1834), 3: 290.
William Lincoln and Charles Hersey, History of Worcester (Worcester: Charles Hersey, 1862), 384. Smith engraving.
Jean Lipman and Tom Armstrong, eds., American Folk Painters of Three Centuries (New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1980), 26-34.
Nina Fletcher Little, ‘Winthrop Chandler,’ Art in America 35 (April 1947): 144-46.
New England Historical and Genealogical Register 33 (October 1879): 381. Smith engraving.
Ann van Devanter and Alfred Frankenstein, American Self-Portraits, 1670-1973 (New York: 1974), 34-45.

 

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