Edwin White (1817-1877)
MSA SC 3520-16836

Primary Sources:

Archives of American Art. The Jervis McEntee Diaries, 11 June 1877.  http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/diaries/mcentee/entry/18770611

Archives of American Art. The Jervis McEntee Diaries, 28 February 1885. http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/diaries/mcentee/entry/18850228

Archives of American Art. Correspondence of Bryant and Godwin. Reel N5, correspondence with Edwin White. http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/william-cullen-bryant-and-parke-godwin-papers-9868.

Catalog of the Libraries of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Edwin White letter to Samuel P. Avery, 1869 Feb. 24., New York, NY: Thomas J. Watson Library, 2013.

COMPTROLLER OF THE TREASURY (Paying Warrants), 04/01/1857-12/07/1857, MSA S703-9, MdHR 3345. Hoffman and James Wallace paid $1000 for draft of painting of Washington resigning.

COMPTROLLER OF THE TREASURY (Paying Warrants), 1859, MSA S 703-14. Edwin White paid $40 in payment of his draft of S.C. Hoffman & Wallace, the Committee appointed to have a painting of Washington Surrendering his Commission to Congress in 1783 as per Chapter 128 of the Acts of 1855 and Chapter 8 of the Acts of 1858.

White, Edwin. Washington Resigning His Commission, 1858. Collection of the Maryland State Archives.

• Key figures depicted in Edwin White's painting of Washington Resigning His Commission (1858)
• Attendance of those depicted in White's painting
• High resolution tif of the painting
• High resolution detail of niche and dais
• High resolution detail of doorway to Senate Committee Room, window sash in Senate Committee Room, and chandelier in Senate Chamber
• 1856 Artist Study, oil [on canvas?] for painting. The study was likely submitted as part of the design competition held in 1856 for the commissioning of the painting. Copies courtesy of the Frick Art Reference Library; images originally published in American Art Association-Anderson Galleries, Inc., 1934. Current ownership unknown.

Newspaper/Journal Articles:

"Chronicle of Facts and Opinions," Bulletin of the American Art-Union, 1 April 1850.

Wisconsin Chief, 24 October 1854.

"Sketchings," The Crayon, 31 January 1855.

"Sketchings," The Crayon, 21 November 1855.

"Maryland Legislature," Baltimore Sun, 5 March 1856.

"New York Artists," The Photographic and Fine Art Journal, 1 August 1856.

"New Painting for the Senate Chamber," Baltimore Sun, 22 January 1857.

"Painting for the Senate Chamber," Annapolis Gazette, 29 January 1857.

"Sketchings," The Crayon, February 1857.

"Sketchings," The Crayon, April 1857. First reference to Washington Resigning.

"The New Painting for the Capitol of Maryland," Baltimore Sun, 20 May 1857.

"Picture for Senate Chamber," Annapolis Gazette, 28 May 1857.

"Personal," New York Times, 29 May 1857.

"Sketchings," The Crayon, July 1857.

"Maryland Legislature," Baltimore Sun, January 1858.

"Maryland Legislature," Baltimore Sun, 30 January 1858.

"Foreign Correspondence Item," The Crayon, April 1858.

"Sketchings," The Crayon, April 1858.

"American Industry Abroad," New York Times, 11 January 1859.

"Sketchings," The Crayon, April 1859.

"Sketchings," The Crayon, June 1859.

Annapolis Gazette, 23 June 1859.

Annapolis Gazette, 30 June 1859.

"Edwin White's Last Painting," Evening Post, 30 July 1859.

"Exhibition of a Maryland Painting," Baltimore Sun, 11 August 1859.

"Letter from the State Capital," Baltimore Sun, 25 August 1859.

"Sketchings," The Crayon, September 1859.

"Sketchings," The Crayon, October 1859.

"Art Items," Charleston Courier, 3 October 1859.

"City Items," New York Daily Tribune, 7 October 1859.

"Letter from the State Capital," Baltimore Sun, 24 December 1859.

"Sketchings," The Crayon, January 1860.

Springfield Republican, 14 June 1860.

"Sketchings," The Crayon, June 1861.

"National Academy of Design," The American Art Journal, 7 June 1866.

"Art Matters," The American Art Journal, 19 January 1867.

"Art Matters," The American Art Journal, 9 March 1867.

"Art Matters," The American Art Journal, 5 October 1867.

"Reception at the Academy of Design," Watson's Art Journal, 11 January 1868.

"Notes," The Art Journal, Vol. 1, 1875.

"Obituary: Edwin White," New York Herald, 9 June 1877.

"Obituary: Edwin White," New York Tribune, 9 June 1877.

"Notes," The Art Journal, Vol. 3, 1877.

"Wyatt Eaton," The Art Journal, Vol. 5, 1879.

"Old Senate Chamber as it was when Washington Resigned His Commission," Baltimore Sun, 10 April 1893.

"Mrs. White's Bequests of Pictures," New York Tribune, 23 December 1894.

"Yale's Week of Gayety," The New York Times, 28 January 1895.

"Old State House Portraits Are To Be Restored Shortly," Baltimore Sun, 18 November 1956.

"A Famous Maryland Painting Restored," Sunday Sun Magazine, 22 February 1959.

"Rural Original," The Washington Post, 31 July 1968.

Secondary Sources: 

Ackerman, Gerald M. American Orientalists, Mame, Tours, France: ACR, 1994.

Ancestry.com. New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957 [database on-line], National Archives. M237, roll 193, line 17, list 651.

Kellogg, Allyn S. Memorials of Elder John White one of the first settlers of Hartford, Conn., and of his Descendants, Hartford: Case, Lockwood, and Company: 1860.

Maryland State Archives, Compilation of possible attendees of Washington's resignation, 2009.

National Academy of Design Museum. Edwin White Biography. ANA 1848; NA 1849.  http://www.nationalacademy.org/collections/artists/detail/1272/

Riley, History of Annapolis "The Ancient City," 1887, p.161-164.

Taylor, Owen M, Annapolis Directory, or A Strangers Guide Giving a Short Account of the Settlement of the Ancient City, History of its Various Public Buildings, Including the State House and Senate Chamber..., (Annapolis, 1865).

Thistlethwaite, Mark Edward. The Image of George Washington, New York: Garland Publishing, 1979, p.105-107.

Troyen, Carol. "Innocents Abroad: American Painters at the 1867 Exposition Universelle, Paris," American Art Journal, vol. 16, no. 4, 1984, p.4-5.

Tuckerman, Henry T. Book of the Artists: American Artist Life, London: Sampson Low & Co, 1867.

Searched but no references found:

Smithsonian American Photograph Archives Collection.

The Evening Star (Washington, DC), 1856-1861.

The Guardian, 1855-1860.

The Observer, 1855-1860.

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