Harvard Art Museums > H21: Samuel Winthrop (1716-1779) 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"Samuel Winthrop (1716-1779) (John Singleton Copley)(Samuel Winthrop) , H21,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Nov 02, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/299801. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number H21 People John Singleton Copley, American (Boston, MA 1738 - 1815 London, England) Samuel Winthrop (1716 - 1779) Title Samuel Winthrop (1716-1779) Classification Paintings Work Type painting Date c. 1773 Places Creation Place: North America, United States Culture American Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/299801 Physical Descriptions Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 126.6 x 102.2 cm (49 13/16 x 40 1/4 in.) framed: 145.4 x 120.7 x 11.4 cm (57 1/4 x 47 1/2 x 4 1/2 in.) Provenance Recorded Ownership History By descent through family to Henry G. Andrews, before 1845; Mrs. James (Sarah) Andrews, before 1853; to Col. John Winthrop, her nephew and sitter's great grandnephew, Newport, 1853; gift of his executors and the heirs of Mrs. Andrews to Harvard, 1894. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift to Harvard College by the executors of the estate of John Winthrop and heirs of Mrs. Andrews, 1894 Object Number H21 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 Frank William Bayley, A Sketch of the Life and a List of Some of the Works of John Singleton Copley, The Garden Press, W. B. Libby (Boston, MA, 1910), p. 103 Frank William Bayley, The Life and Works of John Singleton Copley: Founded on the Work of Augustus Thorndike Perkins, The Taylor Press (Boston, MA, 1915), p. 260 Theodore Bolton and Henry Lorin Binsse, "John Singleton Copley", The Antiquarian (New York, NY, December 1930), pp. 116-118., p. 118 Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), pp. 151-152 Barbara N. Parker and Anne Bolling Wheeler, John Singleton Copley: American Portraits in Oil, Pastel and Miniature, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1938), pp. 211-212, pl. 68 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. 478, cat. 2529 Lawrence Shaw Mayo, The Winthrop Family in America, Massachusetts Historical Society (Boston, MA, 1948), p. 196, ill. opp. p. 194 Harvard University, Winthrop Family Portraits at Harvard: John Winthrop House, Harvard University, brochure (Cambridge, MA, April 1956), pp. 7-8 "Winthrop Gift", Harvard Alumni Bulletin, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, June 5, 1965), pp. 669-670 Jules David Prown, John Singleton Copley, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1966), vol. 1, pp. 89, 116, 235, pl. 329 Robert F. Perkins, Jr. and William J. Gavin, III, Boston Athenaeum Art Exhibition Index, 1827-1874, The Library of the Boston Athenaeum (Boston, MA, 1980), p. 39 Morrison Heckscher, "Copley's Picture Frames", John Singleton Copley in America, ed. Carrie Rebora Barratt, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 1995-1996), p. 151 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. 146-147, cat. 91, ill. Exhibition History Unidentified Exhibition, Boston Athenaeum, 1828, Boston Athenaeum, Boston, 01/01/1828 - 12/31/1828 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