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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H732
People
Attributed to John Hazlitt, British, English (Maidstone, England (1767-1837) Stockport, England)
John Winthrop (1714-1779)
Previously attributed to Unidentified Artist
Title
John Winthrop (1714-1779)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1785
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/212745

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor on ivory
Dimensions
4.6 x 3.5 cm (1 13/16 x 1 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: reverse side of gold mount: Inscription: Hon.le John Winthrop/ LLD & F.R.S./Holl. Prof. Math. & Nat. Phil./ at Cambridge. & of the Council of /Mafsachusetts./ Born 19 Dec.r 1714 N. (?)/ Died 3 May 1779
  • inscription: paper inside box for miniature, handwritten: front: John Winthrop/Born Dec.19.1714 (of) Died May 3.1779./ Cambridge./Great-great-great Grand-father of/John Winthrop, Agnes 1,/and Halsey De Wolf.
    back: Given to me/by my great Aunt,/Harriet Winthrop,/March 7.1868.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Harriet Winthrop, daughter of the sitter; to her great-nephew John Winthrop DeWolf, 1868; John Winthrop De Wolf, Jr.; to his niece, Alicia Bradford Pardee Sours, 1975; her gift to the Harvard University Archives, 1998.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Alicia Bradford Pardee Sours to the Harvard University Archives, 1998
Object Number
H732
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • 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), p. 254, cat. 203, ill.

Exhibition History

  • A Transcendent Vitality: Harvard at 375, Harvard University Archives, 10/01/2011 - 05/25/2012

Verification Level

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