Harvard Art Museums > H49: George Washington (1732-1799) 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"George Washington (1732-1799) (Edward Savage)(Sitter: George Washington) , H49,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Aug 24, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/299816. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number H49 People Edward Savage, American (Princeton, MA 1761 - 1817 Princeton, MA) Sitter: George Washington (1732 - 1799) Title George Washington (1732-1799) Classification Paintings Work Type painting Date 1790 Places Creation Place: North America, United States, Massachusetts, Boston Culture American Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/299816 Physical Descriptions Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 77 x 64.5 cm (30 5/16 x 25 3/8 in.) framed: 84.8 × 72.1 × 5.7 cm (33 3/8 × 28 3/8 × 2 1/4 in.) Inscriptions and Marks Signed: l.l.: E. Savage Pinx. 1790 Provenance Recorded Ownership History Gift of Edward Savage to Harvard College, 1791. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Edward Savage to Harvard College, 1791 Accession Year 1793 Object Number H49 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 Samuel Atkins Eliot, A Sketch of the History of Harvard College: And its Present State, C. C. Little & J. Brown (Boston, 1848), p. 83, 179 "Washington Portrait by Savage", The Historical Magazine, C. Benjamin Richardson (New York, 1858), p. 47 Edmund Quincy, Life of Josiah Quincy of Massachusetts, Ticknor and Fields (Boston, 1867), p. 50 Elizabeth Bryant Johnston, Original Portraits of Washington, Including Statues, Monuments and Medals, J. R. Osgood and Co. (Boston, MA, 1882), pp. 44-46, ill. p. 44 Clarence Winthrop Bowen, ed., History of the Centennial Celebration of the Inauguration of George Washington, D. Appleton & Co. (New York, NY, 1892), p. 544, ill. opp. p. 14 "The Harvard College Portrait of George Washington Painted by Edward Savage", The Harvard Graduates' Magazine (Cambridge, MA, June 1895), Vol. 3, no. 12, pp. 502-505, pp. 502-505, ill. opp. p. 453 William Garrott Brown, A List of Portraits in the Various Buildings of Harvard University, Harvard University Library (Cambridge, MA, 1898), p. 43 Perry A. Atherton, "When Washington Lived in Cambridge", The Harvard Illustrated Magazine (February 1900), vol. 1, no. 5, pp. 111-123, ill. p. 112 Charles Henry Hart, "The Congress Voting Independence"; a painting by Robert Edge Pine and Edward Savage in the hall of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, 1905), p. 15 Charles Henry Hart, Edward Savage, Painter and Engraver, Cambridge University Press (Boston, 1905), pp. 5-8 John Hill Morgan and Mantle Fielding, The Life Portraits of Washington and their Replicas, Lancaster Press, Inc. (Lancaster, PA, 1931), p. 180 Frederic Fairchild Sherman, Early American Painting, The Century Co. (New York and London, 1932), p. 180 George Washington Bicentennial Committee, George Washington Bicentennial Historical Loan Exhibition of Portraits of George Washington and his associates, exh. cat., United States Government Printing Office (Washington, D.C., 1932), p. 13, no. 11 Gustavus A. Eisen, Portraits of Washington, R. Hamilton & Associates (New York, 1932), vol. II, p. 457 Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 143 Washington, Lafayette, Franklin: Portraits, Books, Manuscripts, Prints, Memorabilia, for the Most Part from the Collections of the University, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1944), p. 10, cat. 3 Louisa Dresser, "Edward Savage, Painter 1761-1817", Art In America (1952), vol. XL, no. 4, pp. 191-194; p. 192, ill. Alexander C. Brown, "The Chancellors of William and Mary", Daily Press (Newport News, VA, 1965), p. 5 Louise Todd Ambler and Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, "American Painting at Harvard", Antiques (New York, NY, November 1972), vol. 102, no. 5, pp. 876-883, p. 876, fig. 1 Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, Peter G. Huenink, Earl A. Powell III, Harry Z. Rand, and Nanette C. Sexton, American Art at Harvard, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1972), cat. 22, ill. Milo M. Naeve, "The Best Likeness of George Washington by Edward Savage", Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL, 1976), vol. LXX, no. 4, pp. 13-16, p. 15 Linda Ayres, Harvard Divided, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1976), pp. 91-92, cat. 44, ill. Wendy C. Wick, George Washington, an American Icon: The Eighteenth-Century Graphic Portraits, University of Virginia Press (Charlottesville, VA, 1982), p. 40, ill. p. 41 Thomas Fleming, First in Their Hearts, Walker and Company (New York, 1984), ill. p. 112 Sandra Grindlay, "Harvard's Portraits: An American Treasure", Harvard University Art Museums Review (Fall 1992), vol. II, no. 1, pp. 6-7, p. 6 John Caldwell, Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque, and Dale T. Johnson, American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume I: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born by 1815, ed. Kathleen Luhrs, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Princeton University Press (New York, NY and Princeton, NJ, 1994), p. 160 Ellen G. Miles, American Paintings of the Eighteenth Century, National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C, 1995), p. 148, fig. 1 Ellen G. Miles, George and Martha Washington: Portraits from the Presidential Years, exh. cat., National Portrait Gallery (Charlottesville, VA, 1999), p. 22, ill. Jane Turner, The Encyclopedia of American Art before 1914, Macmillan Publishers Limited (London, England, 2000), p. 451 Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life, Penguin Press (New York, 2010), p. 614 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. 23, 427-28, cat. 390, ill. Jennifer Germann, "'The Requisite Local Coloring:' Painting the Washington Family in London", American Art, Smithsonian Institution and The University of Chicago Press (Fall 2021), vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 26-37, p. 27 Exhibition History George Washington Bicentennial Historical Loan Exhibition, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 03/05/1932 - 12/24/1932 Portraits of original members of the Society of the Cincinnati, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 05/10/1935 - 06/09/1935 Washington Lafayette Franklin, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 02/22/1944 - 05/28/1944 Edward Savage, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, 01/04/1952 - 03/08/1952 American Art at Harvard, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/19/1972 - 06/18/1972 Harvard Divided, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/03/1976 - 10/10/1976 George and Martha Washington, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, 02/19/1999 - 08/09/1999 Reciprocal Loan: Harvard Law School Library, Caspersen Room, Harvard Law School Library, Cambridge, 09/15/2014 - 08/15/2015 Afterward: The Revolutionary Veterans Who Built America, American Revolution Museum at Yorktown, Yorktown, 06/10/2017 - 11/27/2017 Related Works Straus.7249 Artist of original: Edward Savage X-radiograph(s) of "George Washington" Photographs 2015.6 Edward Savage George Washington Prints Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. 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