Doggett's Repository of Arts (-1825) was an art gallery in

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, United States, located at 16 Market Street. Its proprietor, John Doggett, was a gilder and

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with a retail shop near the gallery (nos.18 and 20 Market Street). The gallery exhibited originals and copies of works by European masters such as

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, and

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, and a few American artists, such as

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, Samuel F.B. Morse,

Rembrandt Peale Rembrandt Peale (February 22, 1778 – October 3, 1860) was an American artist and museum keeper. A prolific portrait painter, he was especially acclaimed for his likenesses of presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Peale's style wa ...

, and

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. By July 1825, the gallery was converted into retail space for Doggett's frame, mirror and carpet business.

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 (copies of) Rembrandt's "Achilles;" Titian; Watteau's "Garden at Versailles;" Sully's "Taking of Major Andre." Auctioned by Blake &

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, Nov. 22 * 1822 ** March -

's portraits of "the five presidents of the United States:"

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, and

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** 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 -

'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 Jacques-Louis David (; 30 August 1748 – 29 December 1825) was a French painter in the Neoclassicism, Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era. In the 1780s, his cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in ...

's ''Cain meditating the death of his brother Abel''

Image gallery

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's portrait of U.S. president James Monroe (c. 1820-1822), exhibited 1822 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY) Image:1822 ChristRejected byWilliamDunlap Princeton.png, Dunlap's ''Christ Rejected'' (1822), exhibited 1822 (Princeton University) Image:1819 Passage OfThe Delaware byThomasSully MFABoston.jpeg,

's '' The Passage of the Delaware'' (1819), exhibited 1823 (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) Image:House of Representatives 1822 1823 bySFBMorse Corcoran.jpg, Morse's ''House of Representatives'' (1822-1823), exhibited 1823 (Corcoran Museum of Art) Image:1823 mummy DoggettsRepositoryOfArts June18 BostonDailyAdvertiser.png, Advertisement for Egyptian mummy, 1823; proceeds to benefit the

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and

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Image:1820 Court of Death byRembrandtPeale Detroit Institute of Arts.png, Peale's ''Court of Death'' (1820), exhibited 1823 (Detroit Institute of Arts) Image:1823 Stollenwerk Doggetts Dec17 IndependentChronicle BostonPatriot.png, Advertisement for Stollenwerk's mechanical panorama, exhibited 1823-1825 Image:1824 David Doggetts Oct20 IndependentChronicle BostonPatriot.png, Advertisement for exhibit of David's "Cain meditating the death of his brother Abel", 1824 Image:1826 CourtSt map Boston byStephenPFuller detail BPL10344.png, Detail of 1826 map of Boston, showing Market Street, near

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, and Washington Streets, on the future site of

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and City Hall Plaza in Government Center

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