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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H43
People
Attributed to Willem van der Vliet, Dutch (Delft, Netherlands 1584 - 1642 Delft, Netherlands)
Ames William (1576 - 1633)
Title
William Ames (1576-1633)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1633
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/299876

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on white oak panel
Dimensions
86.1 x 65.5 cm (33 7/8 x 25 13/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: inscribed at top: Revd William Ames. D.D./AETAIS: Ag:57. 1633
  • inscription: 1633, top of panel: Revd William Ames. D.D. 1633 [inscription is probably 19th century]
  • inscription: 1633, upper third of panel, gold paint: AETAIS: Ag: 57. 1633 [This is probably a period inscription whereas the one which appears above was most likely added in the nineteenth century]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
William Ames; bequeathed to his wife, Joan Fletcher Ames, 1637; descended to daughter, Ruth Angier; bequeathed to son, Rev. Samuel Angier; bequeathed to son, Rev. John Angier; bequeathed to daughter, Mary Angier Hyde; bequeathed to husband, Ephraim Hyde; his gift to Harvard University.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Ephraim Hyde to Harvard College
Object Number
H43
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Louisa Dresser, XVIIth Century Painting in New England, exh. cat., Worcester Art Museum (Worcester, MA, 1935), pp. 135-136, 173
  • Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 12, ill. p. 13
  • Alan Burroughs, Limners and Likenesses: Three Centuries of American Painting, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p.13
  • Historical Records Survey, Division of Professional and Service Projects, Works Progress Administration, American Portraits, 1620-1825, found in Massachusetts, Volumes 1 and 2, Historical Records Survey (Boston, MA, 1939), p. 11, cat. 55
  • Jonathan L. Fairbanks and Robert F. Trent, New England Begins: The Seventeenth Century, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1982), p. 114, p 157, pl. IX
  • Roger B. Stein, "Thomas Smith's Self-Portrait", Art Journal (Winter 1984), p. 318
  • Wayne Craven, Colonial American Portraiture, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, England, 1986), p. 5, fig. 2
  • Dr. William A. Dyrness, Reformed Theology and Visual Culture, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, UK, 2004), p. 228, fig. 26

Exhibition History

  • XVIIth Century Painting in New England, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, 07/01/1934 - 08/31/1934
  • New England Begins: The Seventeenth Century, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 05/05/1982 - 08/22/1982

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