biografía de Albert G. HOIT (1809-1856)

Lugar de nacimiento: Sandwich, NH

Lugar de defunción: West Roxbury, MA

Direcciones: Itinerant in New Hampshire; Maine; and New Brunswick through 1839; settled in Boston in 1839

Profesión: Portrait painter (primarily), landscape painter

Estudios: Dartmouth College, 1829

Exposiciones: Boston Athenaeum; Boston Mercantile Lib. Assoc. (copy of Gilbert Stuart's Atheneum; portrait of George Washington)

Asociaciones: Boston Art Club (first pres.)

Obra: NPG, Wash., DC ; Union Lg. Club, NYC (Daniel Webster"); Shelburne (VT) Mus."

Comentarios: Gave art lessons while a student at Darmouth. From 1833-35, he painted portraits in Thomaston, Portland, Belfast, and Bangor, Maine, gaining many commissions. By June of 1836, he had set up a studio in Fredericton, New Brunswick, where he achieved considerable success, receiving important patrons from New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, including all of the judges of the New Brunswick Supreme Court. Hoit left Canada by 1839, in order to establish a career in Boston. In 1840 he visited Ohio and was given an introduction to William Henry Harrison, resulting in what would be Hoit's most important portrait (William Henry Harrison," NPG). He visited Europe from 1842-44; and on his return, re-established his studio at Boston, eventually building a house in Roxbury, MA. Revisited maritime provinces of Canada briefly in 1848.

Fuentes: G&W; CAB; Crayon, IV (1857), 29, obit.; Piers, "Artists in Nova Scotia," 147; Swan, BA; Cowdrey, AA & AAU; Boston BD 1841-56. More recently, see Patricia L. Heard, "Albert Gallatin Hoit (1809-1856)," Antiques (November, 1972); Muller, Paintings and Drawings at the Shelburne, 81."