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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H416
People
Asher Brown Durand, American (Jefferson, NJ 1796-1886 Maplewood, NJ)
John Quincy Adams, American (1767 - 1848)
Previously attributed to William Page, American (Albany, NY 1811 - 1885 Staten Island, NY)
Title
John Quincy Adams (1767-1848)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1835
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/302047

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
75 x 62.3 cm (29 1/2 x 24 1/2 in.)
framed: 95.3 x 82.6 x 8.9 cm (37 1/2 x 32 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Commissioned by Charles Augustus Davis before June, 1835; gift to Mrs. Charles Francis Adams (daughter-in-law of John Quincy Adams); descended in family to her grandson, Arthur Adams; his loan to Harvard University for the use of Adams House, 1932.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Loan from Arthur Adams to the President and Fellows of Harvard College, 1932
Object Number
H416
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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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. 8, ill. p. 9
  • Andrew Oliver, Portraits of John Quincy Adams and His Wife, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1970), pp.168-181
  • 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. 177-178, cat. 119, ill.

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