General Henry Knox, ca. 1805

  • Gilbert Stuart, American, 1755-1828

Oil on academy board

  • Unframed: 12 1/8 × 10 inches (30.8 × 25.4 cm)
  • 16 1/8 × 14 1/2 × 2 1/2 inches (41 × 36.8 × 6.4 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund

40.51

General Henry Knox (Thomaston, Maine, USA)

1854, his daughter, Mrs. Lucy Knox Thatcher (Thomaston, Maine, USA). 1854-1880, Lawyer Keith (Thomaston, Maine, USA)

1880, his son, Capt. Charles W. Stimpson (Thomaston, Maine, USA). 1903, Charles W. Stimpson (Arlington, Massachusetts, USA). 1903-1905, Vose Galleries (Boston, Massachusetts, USA). 1905-1909, Charles H. Paine (Boston, Massachusetts, USA and Paris, France)

1940, the estate of Mrs. Charles H. Paine. 1940, Vose Galleries (Boston, Massachusetts, USA)

1940-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Brooks, Noah. Life of General Henry Knox. 1900. Bulletin of the DIA, 20, 5 (February 1941): pp. 43, 46 (ill.). Stewart, Robert G. Nineteenth-Century Gallery of Distinguished Americans. Washington D.C., 1969, p. 47.

after Gilbert Stuart, General Henry Knox, ca. 1805, oil on academy board. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund, 40.51.