H416: John Quincy Adams (1767-1848)
Paintings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- H416
- People
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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
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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
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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
- 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. 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.
Verification Level
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