Chancellor James Kent

Possibly Samuel Irenaeus Prime, The Life of Samuel F. B. Morse, LL.D. (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1875), 131-32;

Edward L. Morse, "Samuel F. B. Morse, the Painter," Scribner's Magazine 51 (March 1912), 355;

possibly Edward Lind Morse, ed., Samuel F. B. Morse: His Letters and Journals (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1914), 1:250-51;

"Exhibit Shows Work of Early Painters: Portraits of Pre-Revolutionary Period Included in Institute Display," Pittsburgh Sun, 21 January 1925, 8;

"Pittsburgh," Art News 23 (31 January 1925), 10;

Exhibition of Early American Portraits, exh. cat. (Pittsburgh: Carnegie Institute, 1925), unpaginated (as Portrait of Chancellor Kent);

Ralph Flint, "Washington and Morse Shows at the Metropolitan," Art News 30 (20 February 1932), 7 (as James Kent);

"The Samuel F. B. Morse Exhibition," Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 27 (February 1932), 36 (as Chancellor Kent);

Jean Brockway, "The Morse Exhibition," Fine Arts 18 (March 1932), 44 (as Chancellor Kent);

Katherine Hughes, "Colonial Art Is Shown Here," Boston Herald, 27 November 1932, 6A;

A. J. Philpott, "Wonderful Collection of Old American Portraits," Boston Globe, 29 November 1932, 11;

G. L. S., "Several Important Exhibits Scheduled for This Month," Providence (R.I.) Sunday Journal, 4 December 1932 (as Chancellor Kent), D6;

Harry B. Wehle, Samuel F. B. Morse, American Painter: A Study Occasioned by an Exhibition of His Paintings, exh. cat. (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1932), 17, 36, unpaginated (as James Kent);

"More Works Acquired for Nelson Art Gallery of Kansas City," Art Digest 7 (15 April 1933), 32;

"Bought for Nelson Museum," Kansas City Post-Journal, 16 April 1933, 2C;

"Nelson Gallery Acquires Painting by Famous Inventor-Artist," Kansas City Star, 16 April 1933, 4E;

"The Acquisitions," Art Digest 8 (1 December 1933), 21 (as Portrait of Chancellor Kent);

"The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art: Complete Catalogue of Paintings and Drawings," Art News 32 (9 December 1933), 28, 49 (as Portrait of Chancellor Kent);

NAMA 1933, 125, 137 (as Portrait of Chancellor Kent);

Exhibition of American Painting, exh. cat. (San Francisco: Press of H. S. Crocker, Co., 1935), unpaginated (as Portrait of Chancellor James Kent);

Survey of Colonial and Provincial Painting, exh. cat. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1939), 23, 39 (as Portrait of Chancellor James Kent); NAMA 1941, 149, 154, 166;

possibly Carleton Mabee, The American Leonardo: A Life of Samuel F. B. Morse (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1943), 92;

"Current Exhibitions," New York Sun, 11 October 1946, 27;

"Washington Irving and His Circle," Antiques 50 (December 1946), 400;

Washington Irving and His Circle: A Loan Exhibition Observing the Restoration of "Sunnyside," exh. cat. (New York: M. Knoedler & Company, 1946), 20;

"The Circle of Washington Irving: A Note on a Loan Exhibition," Connoisseur 119 (June 1947) 112;

NAMA 1949, 200;

possibly Oliver W. Larkin, Samuel F. B. Morse and American Democratic Art (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1954), 74-75;

NAMA 1959, 257;

Herbert Kriedman, "New York's Philip Hone: Businessman-Politician-Patron of Arts and Letters," Ph.D. diss., New York University, 1965, 415; NAMA 1973, 253;

Catalogue of American Portraits in the New- York Historical Society (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974), 1:420;

Paul J. Staiti, "Samuel F.B. Morse and the Search for the Grand Style," Ph.D. diss., University of Pennsylvania, 1979, 214-16, pl. 94;

William Kloss, Samuel F. B. Morse (New York: Harry N. Abrams, in association with the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1988), 86-87;

Paul J. Staiti, Samuel F. B. Morse (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989), 251, 276n9;

possibly Frederick S. Voss, Portraits of the American Law (Washington, D.C.: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, in association with University of Washington Press, 1989), 66;

NAMA 1991, 30-31;

Kristie C. Wolferman, The Nelson- Atkins Museum of Art: Culture Comes to Kansas City (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1993), 141.