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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1969.50
People
Attributed to John Smibert, American (Edinburgh, Scotland 1688 - 1751 Boston, MA)
After Anthony van Dyck, Flemish (Antwerp, Belgium 1599 - 1641 London)
Previously attributed to John Trumbull, American (Lebanon, CT 1756 - 1843 New York, NY)
Title
Cardinal Guido Bentivoglio (1579-1644), after Van Dyck
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1719-1720
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/228156

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
75.8 x 63.4 cm (29 13/16 x 24 15/16 in.)
framed: 97.5 x 85.1 x 7.6 cm (38 3/8 x 33 1/2 x 3 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Estate of John Smibert; purchased by John Trumbull, 1778; gift of John Trumbull to Harvard University, 1789 transferred; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1969

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of John Trumbull to Harvard College, 1791
Accession Year
1969
Object Number
1969.50
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, pp. 393-394
  • Jared B. Flagg, The Life and Letters of Washington Allston, Charles Scribner's Sons (New York, NY, 1892), p. 13
  • William Garrott Brown, A List of Portraits in the Various Buildings of Harvard University, Harvard University Library (Cambridge, MA, 1898), p. 8
  • Letters and Papers of John Singleton Copley and Henry Pelham, Kennedy Galleries, Inc. (New York, 1914 reprint), p. 240
  • George Vertue, Note books, The Walpole Society (Oxford, 1930-1955), vol. 3, p. 14
  • Theodore Bolton, "John Smibert: Notes and a Catalogue", The Fine Arts (August 1933)
  • Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), pp. 17-18
  • Alan Burroughs, Limners and Likenesses: Three Centuries of American Painting, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 41
  • Oskar Hagen, The Birth of the American Tradition in Art, Charles Scribner's Sons (New York, NY, 1940), p. 46, fig. 54
  • A. Hyatt Mayor, "Early American Painters in England", Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, American Philosophical Society (Philadelphia, PA, July 14, 1943), vol. 87, no. 1, pp. 105-109, p. 105
  • 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. 13-14, 124-129, 229
  • Theodore R. Sizer, The Autobiography of Colonel John Trumbull, Patriot-Artist, 1746-1843, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven, CT, 1953)
  • Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, John Trumbull, Painter-Patriot: An Exhibition Organized to Honor the Bicentennial of the Artist's Birth, exh. cat., Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (Hartford, CT, 1956), p. 11, ill.
  • H. Wade White, "Recent Accessions: A Harvard-Yale Association Item", Fogg Art Museum Newsletter, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, October 1967), vol. V, no. 1, fig. 1
  • Theodore R. Sizer, The Works of Colonel John Trumbull, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT, 1967), p. 20, fig. 5
  • Annals of America, Encyclopaedia Britannica (Chicago, IL, 1968 - 1969), v. III, ill.
  • 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, pp. 21-22
  • Joseph T. Butler, "The American Way with Art", The Connoisseur, Connoisseur (September 1972), ill p. 54
  • Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, Peter G. Huenink, Earl A. Powell III, Harry Z. Rand, and Nanette C. Sexton, American Art at Harvard, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1972), cat. 20, ill.
  • Irma B. Jaffe, John Trumbull: Patriot-Artist of the American Revolution, New York Graphic Society (Boston, 1975), p. 40
  • Irma B. Jaffe, "Found: John Smibert's Portrait of Cardinal Guido Bentivoglio", Art Journal, College Art Association of America (New York, Spring 1976), vol. XXXV, no. 3, pp. 210-215, ill. p. 211
  • William H. Gerdts and Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., "A Man of Genius": The Art of Washington Allston (1779-1843), exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1979), p. 15
  • Richard H. Saunders, "John Smibert (1688-1751): Anglo-American portrait painter" (1979), Yale University
  • Miles Chappell, "A Note on John Smibert's Italian Sojourn", The Art Bulletin, College Art Association of America (New York, March 1982), vol. LXIV, no. 1, pp. 132-138, fig. 1
  • Richard H. Saunders, "John Smibert's Italian Sojourn - Once Again", The Art Bulletin, College Art Association of America (New York, June 1984), vol. LXVI, no. 2, pp. 312-318, p. 315, fig. 7
  • Richard H. Saunders and Ellen G. Miles, American Colonial Portraits: 1700-1776, exh. cat., Smithsonian Institution Press (1987), pp. 113-114, p. 100, cat. 14, ill.
  • Richard H. Saunders, John Smibert: Colonial America's First Portrait Painter, The Barra Foundation/Yale University Press (New Haven, CT and London, England, 1995), pp. 30, 67, 125, 208-209, 253, pl. 4, cat. 140, ill.
  • Jane Turner, The Encyclopedia of American Art before 1914, Macmillan Publishers Limited (London, England, 2000), p. 470
  • Jules David Prown, Art as Evidence: Writings on Art and Material Culture, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven and London, 2001), p. 135
  • 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, 431-32, cat. 393, ill.
  • Jonathan Shaw and Jennifer Carling, "The Lost Museum: Teachings of the Philosophy Chamber, Recreated", Harvard Magazine (Cambridge, MA, 2017), pp. 42-49, p. 46
  • Ethan Lasser, ed., The Philosophy Chamber: Art and Science in Harvard’s Teaching Cabinet, 1766–1820, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2017), p. 108, Plate 44; ; p. 262 in Andrew Gelfand's "Chronology"

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