H8: John Winthrop (1588-1649)
Paintings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- H8
- People
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Unidentified Artist
John Winthrop (1588-1649)
- Title
- John Winthrop (1588-1649)
- Classification
- Paintings
- Work Type
- painting
- Date
- c. 1750-1775
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/304846
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 91.4 x 73.3 cm (36 x 28 7/8 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: on rolled-up manuscript: Winthrops Journal/at New England/1635 Feb. 16.../The Blessing/of Bay sailed to/Took in freight...
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Gift of Adam Winthrop, 1840.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Adam Winthrop, 1840
- Object Number
- H8
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- 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. 90
- William Garrott Brown, A List of Portraits in the Various Buildings of Harvard University, Harvard University Library (Cambridge, MA, 1898), p. 44
- Charles Knowles Bolton, The Founders: portraits of persons born abroad who came to the colonies in North America before the year 1701, Boston Athenaeum (Boston, MA, 1919 - 1926), p. 654
- Louisa Dresser, XVIIth Century Painting in New England, exh. cat., Worcester Art Museum (Worcester, MA, 1935), p. 158
- Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), pp. 149-150
- 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. 476, cat. 2521
- James Levitt, "Financial Innovation for Conservation: An American Tradition", From Walden to Wall Street: Frontiers of Conservation Finance, ed. James Levitt, Island Press (Washington, DC, 2005), pp. 1-21, p. 5, fig. 1.1
- 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. 369, 505-06, cat. 469, ill.
- Scott C. Steward and Chip Rowe, The Descendants of Robert Winthrop of New York, Newbury Street Press (Boston, 2017), repr. as pl. I, n.p.
Exhibition History
- XVIIth Century Painting in New England, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, 07/01/1934 - 08/31/1934
Verification Level
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