5.1955: Self-Portrait

Identification and Creation

Object Number

5.1955

People

Washington Allston, American (Georgetown, SC 1779 - 1843 Cambridge, MA)

Title

Self-Portrait

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

c. 1798-1800

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/232626

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

85.4 x 66.6 cm (33 5/8 x 26 1/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

To the artist's wife Martha Dana Allston at his death, 1843; to the Washington Allston Trust, 1862.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Loan from The Washington Allston Trust

Object Number

5.1955

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

This is an unfinished self-portrait by Allston.

Publication History

• Jeffrey Richmond-Moll, "The Face of a Friendship: Reattributing 'Portrait of Washington Allston'", Record: Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton University Art Museum, vol. 70, pp. 57-68, pp. 59, 61, fig. 4
• Jared B. Flagg, The Life and Letters of Washington Allston, Charles Scribner's Sons (New York, NY, 1892), ill. p. 160
• Edgar P. Richardson, Washington Allston: A Study of the Romantic Artist in America, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL, 1948), pp. 31, 185, no. 7
• Thomas W. Leavitt, "The Disposition of the Washington Allston Trust", The Art Quarterly, Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Winter 1956), vol. XIX, no. 4, pp. 415-417, pp. 415-416
• The Paintings of Washington Allston, exh. cat., Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami (Coral Gables, FL, 1975), p. 9
• 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), pp. 16-17, fig. 2
• Dorinda Evans, Benjamin West and his American Pupils, exh. cat., National Collection of Fine Arts (Washington, D.C, 1980), fig. 99
• Carol Troyen, The Boston Tradition: American Paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, exh. cat., American Federation of Arts (New York, NY, 1980), pp. 14, 82
• Nathalia Wright, ed., The Correspondence of Washington Allston, The University Press of Kentucky (Lexington, KY, 1993), p. 21
• 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. 52-53, cat. 11, ill.

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