Harvard Art Museums > H66: Samuel Gilman (1791-1858) Paintings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Samuel Gilman (1791-1858) (Alvan Fisher)(Samuel Gilman) , H66,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Dec 05, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/299901. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number H66 People Alvan Fisher, American (Needham, MA 1792 - 1863 Dedham, MA) Samuel Gilman (1791 - 1858) Title Samuel Gilman (1791-1858) Classification Paintings Work Type painting Date c. 1820 Places Creation Place: North America, United States Culture American Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/299901 Physical Descriptions Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 83.5 x 65.6 cm (32 7/8 x 25 13/16 in.) framed: 99.1 x 81.3 x 6 cm (39 x 32 x 2 3/8 in.) Provenance Recorded Ownership History Mrs. Charles J. Bowen, daughter of the sitter; her gift to Harvard, 1870. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Mrs. Charles J. Bowen, daughter of Samuel Gilman, to Harvard College, 1870 Object Number H66 Division European and American Art Contact am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. 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. 262 William Garrott Brown, A List of Portraits in the Various Buildings of Harvard University, Harvard University Library (Cambridge, MA, 1898), p. 9 Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 62 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in Massachusetts, Volumes 1 and 2, Historical Records Survey (Boston, MA, 1939), p. 167, cat. 873 Mabel M. Swan, "The Unpublished Notebooks of Alvan Fisher.", The Magazine Antiques (New York, NY, August 1952), p. 127., ill. p. 129 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. 202, cat. 152, ill. Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu