H5: Charles Chauncy (1705-1787)
Paintings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- H5
- People
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MacKay, American (active c. 1786-1791)
Charles Chauncy (1705-1787)
- Title
- Charles Chauncy (1705-1787)
- Classification
- Paintings
- Work Type
- painting
- Date
- c. 1787
- Places
- Creation Place: North America, United States
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/304507
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
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87.5 x 72.1 cm (34 7/16 x 28 3/8 in.)
framed: 101.6 x 86.4 x 7.6 cm (40 x 34 x 3 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Unknown (at Harvard by 1898).
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard University Portrait Collection
- Object Number
- H5
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
-
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Publication History
- William Garrott Brown, A List of Portraits in the Various Buildings of Harvard University, Harvard University Library (Cambridge, MA, 1898), p. 12
- Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), pp. 38-39, ill. p. 41
- Alan Burroughs, Limners and Likenesses: Three Centuries of American Painting, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 99
- 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. 77, cat. 404
- Linda Ayres, Harvard Divided, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1976), pp. 28-29, cat. 6, ill.
- Emory Elliott, ed., Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 24, American Colonial Writers, 1606-1734, Bruccoli Clark (Detroit, 1984), p. 54
- 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. 23
- Norman B. Gibbs and Lee W. Gibbs, "Charles Chauncy: A Theology in Two Portraits", The Harvard Theological Review (July 1990), pp. 259-270, pp. 259-270, ill. p. 270
- Frank Lambert, "Pedlar in Divinity": George Whitefield and the Transatlantic Revivals, 1737-1770, Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ, 1994), p. 181, fig. 9
- Frank Lambert, Inventing the "Great Awakening", Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ, 1999), p. 188, fig. 4
- Robert W. Brockway, A Wonderful Work of God, Puritanism and the Great Awakening, Lehigh University Press (Bethlehem, PA, 2003), pp. 163- 165, ill. p. 164
- 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. 341-42, cat. 304, ill.
Exhibition History
- Harvard Divided, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/03/1976 - 10/10/1976
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Verification Level
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