Gilbert Stuart 1755-1828

Painted in Boston circa 1817-20

Edward Tuckerman (the sitter's son), 1870
Dr. Frederick Tuckerman, Amherst, Massachusetts (his son), 1886
Craig and Tarlton, Inc., Raleigh, North Carolina
Acquired from the above, 1973

Boston, Massachusetts, Boston Athenaeum, Gilbert Stuart Memorial Exhibition, August-September 1828, no. 141;
Charlotte, North Carolina, Mint Museum of Art and traveling, American Paintings, The Landon Collection, September 1979-July 1981, no. 6;
Charlotte, North Carolina, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte Collects the Classics, October 1993;
Charlotte, North Carolina, Mint Museum of Art, Classical Taste in America 1800-1840, November 1993-March 1994;
Charlottesville, Virginia, University of Virginia Art Museum, A Jeffersonian Ideal: Selections from the Dr. and Mrs. Henry C. Landon III Collection of American Fine and Decorative Arts, August-November 2005, p. 26, illustrated in color p. 27

George Mason, The Life and Works of Gilbert Stuart, New York, 1879, p. 272;
Lawrence Park, Gilbert Stuart: An Illustrated Descriptive List of His Work, New York, 1926, vol. II, no. 858, p. 770, illustrated vol. IV, p. 536

Good condition; lined; under UV: some small retouches in figure's red mantle, and some other minor retouches to figure's face, a thick, milky varnish makes it difficult to read the surface.
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Mrs. Edward Tuckerman (née Sophie May) was the daughter of Col. and Mrs. John May of Boston. Her father participated in the Boston Tea Party of 1773 and served as Colonel of the First Boston Regiment. Her husband was a shipping-merchant in Boston, and one of the founders of the first savings bank in New England. Mrs. Tuckerman was an avid traveller, and according to family lore she was the first woman to climb the Himalayas.