Doggett's Repository of Arts

Exhibitions

• 1821
• * November - "Collection of cabinet paintings.... Many of them have adorned the galleries of the Duke of Buckingham, Marquis of Stafford, Cardinal Woolsey, Lord Fife, Henry Hope, &c." 164 works, including Rembrandt's "Achilles;" Titian; Watteau's "Garden at Versailles;" Sully's "Taking of Major Andre." Auctioned by Blake & Cunningham, Nov. 22
• 1822
• * March - Gilbert Stuart's portraits of "the five presidents of the United States:" George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe
• * July - "The grand, new and original historical painting, representing the sufferings, death and burial of our lord and saviour Jesus Christ, containing 21 figures as large as life, and occupying more than of canvas."
• * October - William Dunlap's Christ rejected by the high priest and elders
• 1823
• * February - Samuel F.B. Morse's view of the U.S. House of Representatives
• * April - Thomas Sully's The Passage of the Delaware
• * August - Egyptian mummy: a "curious relic of antiquity, together with the sarcophagi in which it was contained, when taken from the catacombs of ancient Thebes"
• * August - Rembrandt Peale's Court of Death
• * December - Thomas Sully's Capuchin Chapel
• * December - "Stollenwerk's mechanical and picturesque panorama": "a commercial city, with its active citizens, merchants, mechanicks, labourers, beggars and promenaders, together with ships, boats, &c. are seen at one view, and put in motion by machinery"
• 1824
• * April - "French and Italian engravings, just imported from France;" auctioned by J.L Cunningham
• * July - "Paintings by some of the old masters, in handsome gilt frames, some of which were recently imported from London.... Titian, Rubens, De Heem, Ruysdaal, Vanderveld, Brughel, Wouvermans;" also marble busts of Rubens and Raphael. Auctioned by J.L Cunningham on July 16.
• * October - Jacques-Louis David's Cain meditating the death of his brother Abel

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