Antique Portrait of Judge William Smith, Gustavus Hesselius; Said to have been commissioned from the artist by Judge William Smith (1697-1769) and his first wife Mary Het Smith (1710-1754), and said to have thence passed as follows in the family;
Thence by inheritance to Elizabeth Williams, Wethersfield, Connecticut, second wife of Judge Smith, upon the latter's death in 1769;
Thence by descent to her step-son, Captain Elisha Williams, in 1776;
Thence by descent to Elizabeth Williams Belden, in 1784;
Thence by descent to Elizabeth Belden Buck, 1789;
Thence by descent to Caroline Handy Gold, 1887;
Thence by descent to Frances Theresa Gold Worcester, 1907, and remaining in the Worceser family until 1922;
With Copley Gallery, Boston;
From whom acquired by the Cleveland Museum of Art in 1923 [Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection, acc. no. 1423.1923].; Exhibited
Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Exhibition of Early American Portraits, 20 January - 8 March 1925, nos. 15 and 16;
Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art, Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition of the Cleveland Museum of Art: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition, 26 June - 4 October 1936, nos. 30 and 31;
Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Exhibition of Paintings by
Hessulius at Swedish Tercentenary Exhibition, 29 June - 17 July 1938, nos. 4 and 5;
Dallas, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Famous Families in American Art, 8 October - 20 November 20 1960, no. 1;
Minneapolis, Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, Four Centuries of American Art, 27 November 1964 - 19 January 1964, p. 33.
Literature
Cleveland Museum of Art Bulletin, vol. XI, 1924, pp. 33-34, reproduced p. 35;
F. Fairchild Sherman, Early American Paintings, New York 1932, p. 16;
A. Burroughs, Limners and Likenesses: Three Centuries of American Painting, Cambridge 1936, p. 30, reproduced pl. 23;
H. E. Keyes, "Doubts Regarding Hesselius," in Antiques, vol. XXXIV, 1938, pp. 144-45, reproduced p. 145 (as likely not by Hesselius);
A. Chong, European & American Painting in The Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue, Cleveland 1993, p. 269 (as German).; Due to the item's age do not expect items to be in perfect condition and I may not describe every little scratch or spot. Please inquire if you have any doubts. I will be more than willing to give you additional information. Please inspect all images for more detailed information and condition of items, pictures are part of my description. I will provide additional photographs if needed.

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