H132: Francis Parkman (1788-1852)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H132

People

Chester Harding, American (Conway, MA 1792 - 1866 Boston, MA)
Francis Parkman (1788 - 1852)

Title

Francis Parkman (1788-1852)

Other Titles

Former Title: Rev. Dr. Parkman

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

c. 1832

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/299903

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

91.4 x 71.5 cm (36 x 28 1/8 in.)
framed: 121.9 x 101.6 x 10.2 cm (48 x 40 x 4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• label: Francis Parkman, D.D./1788-1852/Bequest of his daughter/Eliza W.S. Parkman

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

From the sitter to his daughter, Eliza W. S. Parkman; her bequest to Harvard University, 1906

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Bequest of Eliza W. S. Parkman, 1906

Object Number

H132

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe, The Humane Society of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts: An Historical Review 1785-1916, Humane Society (Boston, MA, 1918), ill. opp. p. 96
• Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 106, ill. p. 105
• 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. 300, cat. 1602
• Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, Peter G. Huenink, Earl A. Powell III, Harry Z. Rand, and Nanette C. Sexton, American Art at Harvard, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1972), cat. 62, ill.
• Leah Lipton, A Truthful Likeness: Chester Harding and His Portraits, exh. cat., National Portrait Gallery (Washington, DC, 1985), pp. 43, 173, ill.
• Dean Grodzins, American Heretic: Theodore Parker and Transcendentalism, The University of North Carolina Press (Chapel Hill and London, 2002), 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), pp. 242-43, 335, cat. 193, 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. 145, fig. 159

Exhibition History

• Unidentified Exhibition, Boston Athenaeum, 1833, Boston Athenaeum, 01/01/1833 - 12/31/1833
• The American Spirit in Portraiture, 1675 - 1900, Fogg Art Museum, 01/19/1951 - 02/24/1951
• American Art at Harvard, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/19/1972 - 06/18/1972
• 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

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