H468: The Reverend Daniel Greenleaf (1680-1763)
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- H468
- People
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Joseph Blackburn, British (England c. 1725 - 1787 Worcestershire, England)
Daniel Greenleaf (1680 - 1763)
- Title
- The Reverend Daniel Greenleaf (1680-1763)
- Classification
- Paintings
- Work Type
- painting
- Date
- 1755
- Places
- Creation Place: North America, United States
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/304894
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
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76.3 x 66 cm (30 1/16 x 26 in.)
framed: 92.7 x 85.1 cm (36 1/2 x 33 1/2 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: l.l.: I. Blackburn Pi[nx]it 1755
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Simon Greenleaf (1783-1853); his son, James Edward Greenleaf (1832-1900) and Mary Elizabeth Willard (1831-?); their daughter, Mary Willard Greenleaf.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard University Portrait Collection, Bequest of Mary W. Greenleaf in memory of Dr. Robert Willard Greenleaf, Class of 1877, in 1936
- Object Number
- H468
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Theodore Bolton and Henry Lorin Binsse, "An American Artist of Formula: Joseph Blackburn. The Second in a Series Dealing with American Portrait Painters and Including a Catalogue of the Artist's Works", The Antiquarian (November 1930), vol. 15, no. 5, pp. 50-53, 88, 90-92, 90
- John Hill Morgan and Henry Wilder Foote, An Extension of Lawrence Park's Descriptive List of the Works of Joseph Blackburn (Worcester, MA, 1937), pp. 27, 33, no. 113
- 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. 180, cat. 940
- C. H. Collins Baker, "Notes on Joseph Blackburn and Nathaniel Dance" (1945), p. 41
- D. Brenton Simons, "Murder in Colonial Boston: The Ill-fated Greenleaf Children and Their Portraits, Part I", New England Ancestors (December 2000), vol. I, no. 5-6, pp. 11-15, ill. p. 11
- 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. 95, cat. 46, ill.
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