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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H729
People
James Frothingham, American (Charlestown, MA 1786 - 1864 Brooklyn, NY)
Henry Ware Sr. (1764 - 1845)
Title
Henry Ware, Sr. (1764-1845)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1810
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/226571

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on wood panel
Dimensions
88.9 x 69.9 cm (35 x 27 1/2 in.)
framed: 106.7 x 90.2 x 10.2 cm (42 x 35 1/2 x 4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Descent through the Ware family to the sitter's granddaughter, Mary Lee Ware, before 1911; descent through the family to Dorothea Ware Langmaid; gift of her husband, John F. Langmaid; his gift to Harvard College, 1997.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of John F. Langmaid, Jr. in memory of his wife, Dorothea Ware Langmaid, great-great-granddaughter of Henry Ware, Sr.
Object Number
H729
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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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. 42
  • Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 141-2
  • 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. 210, 218, cat. 160, ill.
  • Jonathan J. Den Hartog, Patriotism & Piety: Federalist Politics and Religious Struggle in the New American Nation, University of Virginia Press (Charlottesville and London, 2015), repr. in b/w p. 130

Verification Level

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