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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.131
People
Ralph Earl, American (Shrewsbury, MA 1751 - 1801 Bolton, CT)
Title
Reuben Hull Booth (1771-1814)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1790
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230362

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
96.8 x 81.2 cm (38 1/8 x 31 15/16 in.)
framed: 105.7 x 90.2 x 3.2 cm (41 5/8 x 35 1/2 x 1 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.l.: R. Earl Pinxt, 1790
  • inscription: on verso: Reuben H. Booth/Aged 18 yrs 7 mo./April 1790

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
By descent through Booth family from 1790; to the Misses Belden, Danbury, CT; purchased from the Misses Belden by Grenville L. Winthrop; his bequest to the Fogg Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.131
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Fogg Art Museum and Benjamin Rowland, Jr., Real and Ideal in American Art, exh. cat. (Cambridge, MA, Summer 1948), cat. 8
  • Dorothy W. Gillerman, ed., Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1969), p. 108, cat. 81, ill. p. 109
  • Judy Larson, Donelson F. Hoopes, and Phyllis Peet, American Paintings at the High Museum of Art, High Museum of Art (New York, 1994), p. 22 (n.4)
  • 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. 178-79, cat. 120, ill.

Exhibition History

  • Real and Ideal in American Art, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/01/1948 - 09/01/1948
  • The American Spirit in Portraiture, 1675 - 1900, Fogg Art Museum, 01/19/1951 - 02/24/1951
  • Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 01/23/1969 - 03/31/1969

Verification Level

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