Harvard Art Museums > 1939.93: Portrait of a Man Paintings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Portrait of a Man (George Frederic Watts) , 1939.93,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Nov 21, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/230643. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1939.93 People George Frederic Watts, British (London, England 1817 - 1904 Limnerslease, Compton, England) Title Portrait of a Man Other Titles Alternate Title: Portrait of a Man, possibly Alfred de Stern Classification Paintings Work Type painting Date 1881 Culture British Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/230643 Physical Descriptions Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 66.2 x 53.3 cm (26 1/16 x 21 in.) Inscriptions and Marks Signed: l.l.: G. F. Watts 1881 stamp: back of canvas, black ink, stamped: Prepared by / Winsor & Newton / 38, Rathbone Place, / London label: upper member of stretcher, paper and black ink, printed and handwritten: [printed:] B. H. No. [handwritten:] 3381 / G. F. Watts Provenance Recorded Ownership History [Arnold Seligmann, London], sold; to Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York, 1938, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1939 Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Grenville L. Winthrop, Class of 1886 Accession Year 1939 Object Number 1939.93 Division European and American Art Contact am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu Permissions THIS WORK MAY NOT BE LENT BY THE TERMS OF ITS ACQUISITION TO THE HARVARD ART MUSEUMS. The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Publication History H. W. Shrewsbury, The Visions of an Artist (London, England, 1918), p. 18 William Rothenstein, Men and memories; recollections of William Rothenstein, Coward McCann (New York, NY, 1931 - 1940), p. 33 Charles Johnson, English Painting from the Seventh Century to the Present Day, Dial Press (New York, NY, 1932), p. 237 Paintings and Drawings of the Pre-Raphaelites and their Circle, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1946), no. 99, p. 108 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. 133, repr. as no. 81 Francesca Mitchell, "Technical Study of the Paintings by George Frederic Watts in the Collection at the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, July 1990), Unpublished, pp. 1-22 passim Exhibition History Paintings and Drawings of the Pre-Raphaelites and their Circle, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/08/1946 - 06/01/1946 Pre-Raphaelite and Early French Symbolist Art in the Fogg Collections, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 01/16/1973 - 02/25/1973 For Students of Art and Lovers of Beauty: Highlights from the Collection of Grenville L. Winthrop, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/16/2004 Related Works Straus.8191 Artist of original: George Frederic Watts X-radiograph(s) of "Portrait of Unknown Man" Photographs Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu