Gilbert STUART (Saunderstown 1755 - Boston 1828) portrait of Alexander William Walker (1780 - 1863)
oil on painting
72,5 x 60,5 cm
Provenance :
in the family model, his great grand-son Alexander Walker Glass, Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvanie ;
at A. W. Erickson, New York, en 1926 ;
Mme Bartlell Arkell, New York ;
Knoedler et Julius H. Weitzner, New York and London, between 1964 and1969 ;
British Paintings 1500-1850, Londres, Sotheby's, 3 avril 1996, n 67 (Gilbert Stuart).
Bibliography :
L. Park, Gilbert Stuart : an illustrated descriptive list of his works, New York, 1926, vol II., n 875, reproduction vol. IV.
Our portrait have been painted together with his wife portrait, Esther Montgomery (L. Park, n 876). They remain together until 1926 at A.W. Erickson