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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H46
People
Nathaniel Smibert, American (Boston, MA 1735 - 1756 Boston, MA)
Previously attributed to Attributed to John Smibert, American (Edinburgh, Scotland 1688 - 1751 Boston, MA)
John Lovell (1710 - 1778)
Title
John Lovell (1710-1778)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1754-1755
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/304814

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
75 x 61 cm (29 1/2 x 24 in.)
89.5 x 76.8 x 7.6 cm (35 1/4 x 30 1/4 x 3 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Early provenance is unknown; the work came to Harvard before 1846.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection
Object Number
H46
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Augustus Thorndyke Perkins, "Portraits by Smibert", Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Massachusetts Historical Society (Boston, MA, 1878), vol. 16, pp. 392-399, p. 399
  • William Howe Downes, "Boston Painters and Paintings, Part I: The Pre-Copleyites, Copley, Trumbull", The Atlantic Monthly (Boston, MA, July 1888), vol. 62 no. 369, pp. 89-98., p. 91
  • William Garrott Brown, A List of Portraits in the Various Buildings of Harvard University, Harvard University Library (Cambridge, MA, 1898), p. 27
  • Charles H. Caffin, The Story of American Painting, Frederick A. Stokes Company (New York, 1907), ill. p. 7
  • Loan Exhibition of One Hundred Colonial Portraits, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1930), ill. p. 53
  • Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 89
  • 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. 249, cat. 1338
  • New England Painting, 1700-1775, exh. cat., Worcester Art Museum and American Antiquarian Society (Worcester, MA, 1943)
  • Henry Wilder Foote, John Smibert, painter; with a descriptive catalogue of portraits and notes on the work of Nathaniel Smibert, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1950), pp. 262-263, 272
  • William Dunlap, History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States, Dover Publications Inc. (New York, 1969), vol. I, p. 30, pl. 5a
  • 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, 433-34, cat. 395, ill.

Exhibition History

  • Loan Exhibition of One Hundred Colonial Portraits: Massachusetts Bay Colony Tercentenary, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 06/19/1930 - 09/21/1930
  • New England Painting, 1700-1775, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, 02/17/1943 - 03/31/1943
  • Boston Painters 1670-1940, Boston University Art Galleries, Boston, 03/15/1968 - 04/15/1968

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