Harvard Art Museums > H57: Thomas Palmer (1743-1820) Paintings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Thomas Palmer (1743-1820) (Gilbert Stuart Newton)(Thomas Palmer) , H57,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Nov 05, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/304851. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number H57 People Gilbert Stuart Newton, British (Halifax, Nova Scotia 1794 - 1835 London, England) Thomas Palmer (1743-1820) Title Thomas Palmer (1743-1820) Classification Paintings Work Type painting Date c. 1818-1820 Culture American Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/304851 Physical Descriptions Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 90.8 x 71.1 cm (35 3/4 x 28 in.) framed: 121.9 x 101.6 x 10.2 cm (48 x 40 x 4 in.) Inscriptions and Marks plaque: THOMAS PALMER, 1743-1820/ Classical Scholar and Benefactor of the Library/ By Gilbert Stuart Newton Provenance Recorded Ownership History Bequest of the sitter to Harvard University, 1820. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard University Portrait Collection, Bequest of Thomas Palmer to Harvard University, 1820 Object Number H57 Division European and American Art Contact am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Publication History William Garrott Brown, A List of Portraits in the Various Buildings of Harvard University, Harvard University Library (Cambridge, MA, 1898), p. 33 Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), pp. 104-105 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. 298, cat. 1587 John Langdon Sibley, Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1970), vol. 15, p. 91 Dorinda Evans, Benjamin West and his American Pupils, exh. cat., National Collection of Fine Arts (Washington, D.C, 1980), ill. M. A. Huub Everaert, "Een zoektocht naar de aard van man-vrouw relaties onder Surinaamse slaven" (1999), Universiteit van Amsterdam, p. 92, ill. Dorinda Evans, Gilbert Stuart and the Impact of Manic Depression, Ashgate Publishing (Surrey, England, 2013), pp. xiii, 154, fig. 75 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), pp. 24, 357, cat. 322, ill. Exhibition History Benjamin West and his American Students, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, 10/16/1980 - 01/04/1981; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 01/30/1981 - 04/19/1981 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu