Albert Gallatin Hoit

Albert Gallatin Hoit (December 13, 1809 – December 18, 1856) was an American painter who lived in Boston, Massachusetts. He painted portraits of William Henry Harrison, Daniel Webster and Brenton Halliburton.

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; 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 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.