Loans Webster Portrait

THROUGH THE GENEROSITY Of Henry Parkman of Boston, Mass., the College has received the loan of a Gilbert Stuart painting of Daniel Webster. The portrait was painted in 1817 when Webster was 35 years old and shortly before he was to represent the College in the Dartmouth College Case, 1818-1819. It is unfinished with only the head and neck cloth being painted.

Stuart made the portrait for Mrs. Edmund Dwight of Boston, a sister-in-law of George Ticknor, 1807, and at her death it was inherited by her husband, then by her daughter, Mary Eliot Dwight, who married Samuel Parkman.

The painting has been loaned to Dartmouth during Mr. Parkman's lifetime and now hangs in President Dickey's office.

STUART PAINTING OF DANIEL WEBSTER loaned to the College by Henry Parkman of Boston, Mass.