Albert Gallatin Hoit (December 13, 1809 – December 18, 1856) was an American painter who lived in

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, Massachusetts. He painted portraits of

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and

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Biography

Hoit was born in Sandwich, New Hampshire, December 13, 1809, to Gen. Daniel Hoit and Sally Flanders. Siblings included William Henry Hoit.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. Hoit graduated from

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in 1829. He married Susan Hanson in 1838; children included Anna M. Hoit. He "devoted his life to portrait painting, first at

Portland, Maine Portland is the largest city in the U.S. state of Maine and the seat of Cumberland County. Portland's population was 68,408 in April 2020. The Greater Portland metropolitan area is home to over half a million people, the 104th-largest metropo ...

, in 1831, and then in Bangor and Belfast, Maine, and St. John's, N.B. until Boston, Mass., became his permanent home in 1839." He also travelled 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, Boston, and now belongs to the Union League Club, New York." He was affiliated with the Boston Artists' Association; and exhibited at the gallery of the

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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 Jamaica Plain, December 18, 1856, at age 47. Works by Hoit are in the collection of the Sandwich Historical Society in New Hampshire,Sandwich Historical Society
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New Brunswick Museum
the National Gallery of Canada, and the Strawbery Banke Museum in Portsmouth, NH.

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, 1849 File:1852 JohannaRobinsonHazen byAlbertGallatinHoit NationalGalleryCanada.jpeg, Johanna Robinson Hazen, 1852 File:DLFurberbyAGHoit1848.jpg, Rev Daniel Little Furber 1848

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Hoit, Albert Gallatin 1809-1856
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