H244: Jared Sparks (1789-1866)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H244

People

Rembrandt Peale, American (Bucks County, PA 1778 - 1860 Philadelphia, PA)
Jared Sparks (1789 - 1866)

Title

Jared Sparks (1789-1866)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

c. 1819

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/300059

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

51.1 x 38.5 cm (20 1/8 x 15 3/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

From the sitter to his daughter, Lizzie Sparks Pickering (1849-1906), wife of Prof. Edward C. Pickering (1846-1919), 1866; her bequest to Harvard University, 1919.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Bequest of Lizzie Sparks Pickering

Object Number

H244

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. 128, ill. p. 129
• Wilbur Harvey Hunter, The Peale Family and Peale's Baltimore Museum, 1814-1830: 150th Anniversary Year, exh. cat., The Peale Museum, Baltimore (Baltimore, MD, 1965), no. 22, ill.
• 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. 18, ill.
• Barbara B. Millhouse, American Originals, Abbeville Press (New York, 1990), p. 36, fig. 5
• Lillian B. Miller, In Pursuit of Fame: Rembrandt Peale, 1778-1860, exh. cat., National Portrait Gallery (Washington DC, 1992), p. 129, fig. 65
• Lillian B. Miller, ed., The Peale Family: Creation of a Legacy 1770-1870, exh. cat., Abbeville Press (New York, NY, 1996)
• Marshall Foletta, Coming to Terms with Democracy: Federalist Intellectuals and the Shaping of an American Culture, The University Press of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA, 2001)
• 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. 316, 392-93, cat. 355, ill.
• Oliver Zunz, The Man Who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville, Princeton University Press (Princeton, 2022), repr., np

Exhibition History

• American Art at Harvard, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/19/1972 - 06/18/1972
• American Art Series, Civic Art Gallery of San Jose [former name], San Jose, 05/30/1974 - 06/20/1974
• In Pursuit of Fame: Rembrandt Peale, 1778-1860, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, 11/06/1992 - 02/07/1993

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