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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H347
People
Robert M. Pratt, American (Binghamton, NY 1811 - 1880 New York, NY)
Copy after Thomas Smith, American (died 1691, active 1670s-1680s)
Title
Portrait of a Man, probably Sir George Downing (1624-1684), after Thomas Smith (d. 1691)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1872
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297467

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
110.5 x 90.2 cm (43 1/2 x 35 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Gift of Harold Murdock to Harvard College, 1925

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Harold Murdock to Harvard College, 1925
Object Number
H347
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
This is a copy after the Thomas Smith portrait (see H527).

Publication History

  • Louisa Dresser, "Portraits in Boston, 1630-1720", Archives of American Art (July-October 1966), vol. 6, no. 3-4, pp. 1-34, p. 16, fn 29
  • Charles Knowles Bolton, The Founders: portraits of persons born abroad who came to the colonies in North America before the year 1701, Boston Athenaeum (Boston, MA, 1919 - 1926), p. 951
  • Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 49
  • 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), p. 405, 437, cat. 365, ill.
  • Charles Spencer, The Regicides' New Haven?, History Today, History Today (London, October 2014), vol. 64, no. 10, pp.38-44, p. 42, repr.

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