Albert Gallatin Hoit

Biography

Hoit was born in Sandwich, New Hampshire, on December 13, 1809, to Gen. Daniel Hoit and Sally Flanders. Siblings included William Henry Hoit. Hoit graduated from Dartmouth College in 1829. He married Susan Hanson in 1838; children included Anna M. Hoit and Albert Hanson Hoit.

He "devoted his life to portrait painting, first at Portland, Maine in 1831, and then in Bangor and Belfast, and Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, until he settled in Boston in 1839." He also traveled in Europe, "Oct. 1842 to July 1844, ... enjoying the galleries of art in Italy, Paris, and London." He created portraits of Pietro Bachi, Johanna Robinson Hazen, J. Eames, and others. He painted a portrait of Daniel Webster "for Paran Stevens, which hung for years in the Revere House and now belongs to the Union League Club, in New York State."

He was affiliated with the Boston Artists' Association; and exhibited at the gallery of the New England Art Union in the 1850s. In 1848, he kept a studio on Tremont Row in Boston, and lived in Roxbury. By 1852 he had moved his studio to Washington Street. He died in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston on December 18, 1856, at age 47.

Works by Hoit are in the collection of the Sandwich Historical Society in New Hampshire, the New Brunswick Museum, the National Gallery of Canada, and the Strawbery Banke Museum in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

References

Image gallery

File:William Henry Harrison.jpg|William Henry Harrison, 1840 File:DanielWebster byAlbertGallatinHoit.jpeg|Daniel Webster File:1849 BrentonHalliburton byAlbertGallatinHoit NationalGalleryCanada.jpeg|Brenton Halliburton, 1849 File:1852 JohannaRobinsonHazen byAlbertGallatinHoit NationalGalleryCanada.jpeg|Johanna Robinson Hazen, 1852 File:DLFurberbyAGHoit1848.jpg|Rev Daniel Little Furber 1848

References

1. [https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20110612124309/http://www.gallery.ca/en/see/collections/artist.php?iartistid=2473 National Gallery of Canada]
2. George Thomas Chapman. Sketches of the alumni of Dartmouth College: from the first graduation in 1771 to the present time, with a brief history of the institution. Cambridge, Mass.: Riverside Press, 1867.
3. Portraits of New Hampshire public men and others. New England historical and genealogical register, Volume 37, July 1883.
4. Yale College. History of the class of 1903. 1906.
5. Massachusetts, Birth Records 1840-1915.
6. Life portraits of Daniel Webster. McClure's Magazine, 1897; p.620.
7. City directory of Boston, 1848.
8. [[Boston Directory]] 1852.
9. [http://www.sandwichhistorical.org Sandwich Historical Society]