John Hesselius
Gustavus Hesselius, Jr. with His Nurse
c. 1767
Physical Qualities
Oil on canvas, Framed: 35 5/8 × 30 3/4 in. (90.5 × 78.1 cm.)
Unframed: 29 5/8 × 24 3/4 in. (75.2 × 62.9 cm.)
Credit Line
Purchase Fund
Object Number
1945.91
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1945; Mrs. Alexander Murray by descent, 1928; Clapham Murray, West River, Maryland, by gift, 1904; Mrs. Elizabeth Ridgley
BMA, "Two Hundred and Fifty Years of Painting in Maryland," May 11-June 17, 1945, p. 17, no. 11.
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, "The Negro in American Painting," May 15-July 15, 1964.
Milwaukee Art Center, "The Inner Circle," September 15-October 23, 1966, n.p., no. 44, ill.
BMA, "Maryland Heritage," April 20-June 20, 1976, p. 63, no. 10, ill.
American Folk Art Museum, "Unnamed Figures". American Folk Art Museum, New York, NY, 13 November 2023- 24 March 2024.
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, "The Negro in American Painting," May 15-July 15, 1964.
Milwaukee Art Center, "The Inner Circle," September 15-October 23, 1966, n.p., no. 44, ill.
BMA, "Maryland Heritage," April 20-June 20, 1976, p. 63, no. 10, ill.
American Folk Art Museum, "Unnamed Figures". American Folk Art Museum, New York, NY, 13 November 2023- 24 March 2024.
Sona K. Johnston, "American Painting 1750-1900 from the Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art," 1983, pp. 80-81, ill. p. 80.
Boldt, Janine Yorimoto. "Enslavement and Its Legacies: 'Constantly to look at me'. Slavery and the Development of Colonial American Portraiture." Winterthur Portfolio 56 (2022): 127-166. ill., p. 164.
Inscribed: None
