H91: Benjamin Bussey (1757-1842)
Paintings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- H91
- People
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Gilbert Stuart, American (North Kingstown, RI 1755 - 1828 Boston, MA)
Benjamin Bussey, American (Dedham, MA 1757 - 1842 Dedham, MA)
Frame by John Doggett
- Title
- Benjamin Bussey (1757-1842)
- Classification
- Paintings
- Work Type
- painting
- Date
- 1809
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/299878
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Oil on panel
- Dimensions
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83.2 x 67.7 cm (32 3/4 x 26 5/8 in.)
framed: 101.9 x 86.4 x 9.5 cm (40 1/8 x 34 x 3 3/4 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: verso of panel, black paint: H91 / BENJAMIN BUSSEY / 1758-1842 / BY G. STUART
- inscription: verso of panel, graphite: 41 [illegible] 6
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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Commissioned, 1809; bequest to wife, Mrs. Benjamin Bussey; bequest to her granddaughter, Maria Bussey Davis (Mrs. Thomas Motley), 1849; on her death to Harvard University, under the terms of the sitter's will, 1894
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard University Portrait Collection, Bequest of Benjamin Bussey, 1894
- Object Number
- H91
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Lawrence Park, Gilbert Stuart: An lllustrated Descriptive List of His Works, vol. I - IV, W. E. Rudge (New York, NY, 1926), vol. I, p. 194, no. 132
- Cuthbert Lee, Early American Portrait Painters: The Fourteen Principal Earliest Native-born Painters, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT, 1929), p. 38
- Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), pp. 33-34
- 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. 63, cat. 337
- Ida Hay, Science in the Pleasure Ground : A History of the Arnold Arboretum, Northeastern University Press (Boston, MA, 1994)
- 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. 453-54, cat. 419, ill.
- Robert Mussey Jr. and Clark Pearce, Rather Elegant than Showy: The Classical Furniture of Isaac Vose, Massachusetts Historical Society and David R. Godine (Boston, 2018), p. 54, fig. 62
- Harvard & The Legacy of Slavery, website, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, April 25, 2022, p. 26, 96
Exhibition History
- Entrepreneurship and Classical Design in Boston's South End: The Furniture of Isaac Vose and Thomas Seymour, 1815 to 1825, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, 05/10/2018 - 09/14/2018
Verification Level
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