H444: Katherine Willard Gibbs (Mrs. Henry Gibbs) (d.1769)
Paintings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- H444
- People
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John Greenwood, American (Boston, MA 1727 - 1792 Margate, England)
Mrs. Henry (Katherine Willard) Gibbs (died 1769)
- Title
- Katherine Willard Gibbs (Mrs. Henry Gibbs) (d.1769)
- Other Titles
- Former Title: Catherine (Willard) Gibbs
- Classification
- Paintings
- Work Type
- painting
- Date
- 1747
- Places
- Creation Place: North America, United States
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/299911
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 76.3 x 64 cm (30 1/16 x 25 3/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: l.l.: J. G. pinx 1747
- label: on verso: Addison Gallery, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Gift of Henry Shattuck to Harvard University, 1936
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Henry Shattuck to Harvard University, 1936
- Object Number
- H444
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 61
- 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. 165, cat. 866
- Alan Burroughs, John Greenwood in America, 1745-1752: A Monograph With Notes and a Check List, Addison Gallery of American Art (Andover, MA, 1943), pp. 14, 17, 65, 80, fig. 2
- Anne H. Vogel, American Colonial Portraits from the Fogg Art Museum and Harvard University, exh. cat., Milwaukee Art Museum (Mikwaukee, WI, 1983), ill. n.p.
- John C. Eastberg and Eric Vogel, Layton's Legacy: A Historic American Art Collection, 1888-2013, University of Wisconsin, Madison (Milwaukee and Madison, 2013), p. 384, ill. p. 387
- 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. 233-34, cat. 184, ill.
Exhibition History
- The American Spirit in Portraiture, 1675 - 1900, Fogg Art Museum, 01/19/1951 - 02/24/1951
- American Colonial Portraits from the Fogg Art Museum and Harvard University, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, 06/01/1983 - 06/30/1983
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