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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1966.150
People
George Clint, British (London, England 1770 - 1854 Kensington, England)
Possibly attributable to John Constable, British (E. Bergholt, England 1776 - 1837 London, England)
Title
Self-Portrait
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1800-1825
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/228071

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
76.5 x 62.6 cm (30 1/8 x 24 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: on back of stretcher, handwritten in graphite: 258 [encircled]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Irving M. Scott, Purchased from a Dutch collection, Sold to Mary B. (Mrs. E. D.) Brandegee, 1906.
Pieter van den Brande, Purchased at American Art Galleries, NYC, 1906. Object was no. 35 in Scott sale, listed as a Self-Portrait by Constable.
Thomas Donlon, Boston, Sold to Edwin Hale Abbot, 1946.
Edwin Hale Abbot Jr., Purchased from Thomas Donlon, 1946, Gift to Fogg Art Museum, 1966. Abbot paid $4500 to Donlon

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Edwin H. Abbot
Accession Year
1966
Object Number
1966.150
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Scott Sale, auct. cat., American Art Galleries (New York, NY, February 9, 1906), repr., no. 35
  • Robert Hoozee, L'Opera Completa di Constable, Rizzoli Editore (Milan, Italy, 1979), no. 667
  • Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), p. 100, repr. as no. 34

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