Captain Benjamin L. Waite
Framed: 34 3/8 x 29 3/8 x 2 3/8 inches (87.31 x 74.61 x 6.03 cm)
Exhibition of American Painting, M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, June 7–July 7, 1935, no. 13 (as Self-Portrait by Robert Fulton).
Washington Irving and His Circle, M. Knoedler & Co., New York, October 8–26, 1946, no. 5 (as Self- Portrait by Robert Fulton).
The World of Benjamin West, Allentown Art Museum, Pa., May 1–July 31, 1962, no. 80 (as Self Portrait by Robert Fulton).
Kaleidoscope of American Painting: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, December 2, 1977–January 22, 1978, no. 13 (as Presumed Self Portrait by Robert Fulton).
Return to Albion: Americans in England, 1760–1940, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., April 20–September 16, 1979, no. 38 (as Self-portrait by Robert Fulton).
to Sara Davis Waite Washburn (adopted daughter of the sitter), North Stamford, Conn., by bequest, 1874;
to Catherine Davis Smith (sister of Sara Davis Waite Washburn), New Paltz, N.Y.;
to Jennie Post Wolven (daughter of Catherine Davis Smith), New Salem, N.Y., by bequest, 1917;
to Mrs. Staats, Somerville, N.J., 1927;
to (Ehrich Galleries, New York, 1927);
to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, 1933.
Handbook of the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art (Kansas City, Mo.: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1933), 126, 137 (as Self Portrait by R. Fulton).
“The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art: Complete Catalogue of Paintings and Drawings,” Art News 32 (December 9, 1933), 28 (as Self Portrait by Robert Fulton).
Ehrich Galleries, advertisement, Art News 32 (December 9, 1933), 107 (artist as Robert Fulton).
Exhibition of American Painting, exh. cat. (San Francisco: M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, 1935), unpaginated (as Self-Portrait by Robert Fulton).
Alan Burroughs, Limners and Likenesses: Three Centuries of American Painting (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1936), 111, fig. 80 (as Self-Portrait by Robert Fulton).
Eleanor J. Fulton, “Robert Fulton as an Artist,” Papers Read before the Lancaster County Historical Society 42 (1938), 79 (as Portrait of the Artist by Robert Fulton).
Washington Irving and His Circle, exh. cat. (New York: M. Knoedler & Co., 1946), 17–18 (as Self-Portrait by Robert Fulton).
“Art Sets Fashion Key: Paintings to Be Displayed in Mindlin’s Style Event,” [1948], clipping, Scrapbook, NAMA Archives (as Self Portrait by Robert Fulton).
The William Rockhill Nelson Collection, 3rd. ed. (Kansas City, Mo.: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1949), 200 (as Self Portrait by Robert Fulton).
Pictorial History of the World: The Story of Man’s Progress from Prehistoric Times to the Present, Told in 2,000 Pictures, 200,000 Words, with Portfolios of 50 Full Color Plates and Historical Maps (Wilton, Conn.: published by the editors of Year, 1956), 430 (artist as Robert Fulton).
“Fashion in the Arts,” Fashion Digest, Fall 1960/Winter 1961, 42.
The World of Benjamin West, exh. cat. (Allentown, Pa.: Allentown Art Museum, 1962), 90 (as Self Portrait by Robert Fulton).
Ross E. Taggart and George L. McKenna, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. 1, Art of the Occident, 5th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 171, 252 (as Self-Portrait by Robert Fulton).
Kaleidoscope of American Painting: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. exh. cat. (Kansas City, Mo.: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1977), 19 (as Presumed Self Portrait by Robert Fulton).
Return to Albion: Americans in England, 1760–1940, exh. cat. (Washington, D.C.: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 1979), unpaginated (as Self-Portrait by Robert Fulton).
Richard Kenin, Return to Albion: Americans in England, 1760–1940 (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979), 49 (as Self-Portrait by Robert Fulton).
Brooke Hindle, “From Art to Technology and Science,” Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 96 (April 1986), 35, fig. 20 (as Self-Portrait by Robert Fulton).
Cynthia Owen Philip, “Robert Fulton,” Antiques 132 (November 1987), 1138, 1139n23 (artist as Robert Fulton).
Henry Adams, Handbook of American Paintings in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, Mo.: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1991), 29 (as Self-Portrait by Robert Fulton).
William S. Dudley, ed., The Naval War of 1812: A Documentary History (Washington, D.C.: Naval Historical Center, Department of the Navy, 1992), 2:xxxiv, 112 (as Robert Fulton attributed to Robert Fulton).
Kristie C. Wolferman, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: Culture Comes to Kansas City (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1993), 141 (artist as Robert Fulton).
