H9: John Winthrop (1588-1649)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H9

People

Charles Osgood, American (Salem, MA 1809 - 1890 Salem, MA)
John Winthrop (1588-1649)

Title

John Winthrop (1588-1649)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

c. 1840-1850

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/304798

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

76.2 x 63.5 cm (30 x 25 in.)
110.8 x 87 x 10.2 cm (43 5/8 x 34 1/4 x 4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: on verso [not in artist's hand]: J WINTHROP/COPY FROM VAN DYCK BY OSGOOD

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Gift of Thomas L. Winthrop to Harvard College, 1835.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Thomas L. Winthrop to Harvard College, 1835

Object Number

H9

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• [Letter], 1827 -1836, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1835, p. 145; 1835, p. 400
• William Garrott Brown, A List of Portraits in the Various Buildings of Harvard University, Harvard University Library (Cambridge, MA, 1898), p. 44
• Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), pp. 149-150
• Historical Records Survey, Division of Professional and Service Projects, Works Progress Administration, American Portraits, 1620-1825, found in Massachusetts, Volumes 1 and 2, Historical Records Survey (Boston, MA, 1939), p. 475
• Lawrence Shaw Mayo, The Winthrop Family in America, Massachusetts Historical Society (Boston, MA, 1948), pp. 11-33
• Andrew Oliver, Ann Millspaugh Huff, and Edward W. Hanson, Portraits in the Massachusetts Historical Society: An Illustrated Catalogue with Descriptive Matter, Massachusetts Historical Society (Boston, MA, 1988), p. 125
• Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Melissa Renn, American Paintings at Harvard, Volume One: Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels by Artists Born before 1826, Yale University Press (U.S.) and Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge and New Haven, 2014), p. 369, cat. 334, ill.
• Harvard & The Legacy of Slavery, website, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, April 25, 2022, p. 63, 124

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