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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H33
People
Francis Alexander, American (Killingly, CT 1800 - 1880 Florence, Italy)
Francis Calley Gray (1790 - 1856)
Title
Francis Calley Gray (1790-1856)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1836-1840
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/299813

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
133.5 x 104.1 cm (52 9/16 x 41 in.)
framed: 121.9 x 151.8 x 7.3 cm (48 x 59 3/4 x 2 7/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Francis Calley Gray; bequeathed to his nephew, William Gray, or to his cousin Samuel Gray Ward, 1856; to Harvard University, 1858.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of William Gray
Object Number
H33
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • William Howe Downes, "Boston Painters and Paintings, Part II: Allston and His Contemporaries", The Atlantic Monthly (August 1888), vol. 62, no. 370, pp. 258-266, p. 263
  • Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), pp. 65-66, ill. p. 65
  • Marjorie B. Cohn and Harvard University Art Museums/ Harvard University Press, Francis Calley Gray and Art Collecting for America (Cambridge, MA, 1986), pp. 103-105, fig. 1
  • 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. 45-46, cat. 4, ill.
  • Gilbert Stuart: George Washington (Vaughan Type): American Art, auct. cat., Christie's, New York (New York, May 23, 2017), repr., n.p.

Exhibition History

  • Fine Art for Harvard: The Gray Collection of Engravings, Fogg Art Museum, 09/02/1986 - 11/02/1986

Verification Level

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