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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H229
People
Joseph Alexander Ames, American (Roxbury, NH 1816 - 1872 New York, NY)
Clarke Gayton Pickman (1791 - 1860)
Title
Clarke Gayton Pickman (1791-1860)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1845-1855
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/299542

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
76.2 x 63.5 cm (30 x 25 in.)
framed: 106.9 x 94 x 15.2 cm (42 1/16 x 37 x 6 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Descent through the family to Mary W. Almon, wife of Andrew B. Almon and niece of the sitter; her gift to Harvard University.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Mary W. Almon (Mrs. A. B. Almon), niece of C. G. Pickman, to Harvard University
Object Number
H229
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), pp. 110-111
  • 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. 71-72, cat. 25, ill.

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