H244: Jared Sparks (1789-1866)
Paintings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- H244
- People
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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
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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
Verification Level
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