PaintingsAmerican19th century
Benjamin Bussey (1757-1842)
1809
Artists
Gilbert StuartArtist
Benjamin BusseySitter
John DoggettFramemaker
Dimensions
83.2 x 67.7 cm (32 3/4 x 26 5/8 in.) framed: 101.9 x 86.4 x 9.5 cm (40 1/8 x 34 x 3 3/4 in.)
Provenance
Commissioned, 1809; bequest to wife, Mrs. Benjamin Bussey; bequest to her granddaughter, Maria Bussey Davis (Mrs. Thomas Motley), 1849; on her death to Harvard University, under the terms of the sitter's will, 1894
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