H79: Thomas Hubbard (1702-1773)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H79

People

John Singleton Copley, American (Boston, MA 1738 - 1815 London, England)
Thomas Hubbard (1702-1773)

Title

Thomas Hubbard (1702-1773)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

c. 1767

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States, Massachusetts, Boston

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/299902

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

125.7 x 100.3 cm (49 1/2 x 39 1/2 in.)
framed: 143.5 x 119.4 x 10.2 cm (56 1/2 x 47 x 4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Descended in family to Mrs. Sarah Appleton; her gift to Harvard College.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Mrs. Sarah Appleton to Harvard College

Object Number

H79

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Henry T. Tuckerman, Book of the Artists: American Artist Life, Comprising Biographical and Critical Sketches of American Artists, Preceded by an Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of Art in America, Putnam (New York, NY, 1867), p. 72
• Augustus Thorndyke Perkins, A Sketch of the Life and a List of Some of the Works of John Singleton Copley, J. R. Osgood & Company (Boston, MA, 1873), p. 75
• William Garrott Brown, A List of Portraits in the Various Buildings of Harvard University, Harvard University Library (Cambridge, MA, 1898), p. 23
• Frank William Bayley, A Sketch of the Life and a List of Some of the Works of John Singleton Copley, The Garden Press, W. B. Libby (Boston, MA, 1910), p. 57
• Frank William Bayley, The Life and Works of John Singleton Copley: Founded on the Work of Augustus Thorndike Perkins, The Taylor Press (Boston, MA, 1915), p. 151
• Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 78
• Barbara N. Parker and Anne Bolling Wheeler, John Singleton Copley: American Portraits in Oil, Pastel and Miniature, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1938), pp. 116-117, pl. 75
• 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. 211, cat 1116
• Jules David Prown, John Singleton Copley, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1966), vol. 1, p. 66, 109, 220, pl. 185
• Morrison Heckscher, "Copley's Picture Frames", John Singleton Copley in America, ed. Carrie Rebora Barratt, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 1995-1996), pp. 151-152
• Jonathan Edwards, Letters and Personal Writings, ed. George S. Claghorn, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT, 1998), p. 395, ill.
• 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. 138, cat. 85, ill.

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