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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H608
People
John Trumbull, American (Lebanon, CT 1756 - 1843 New York, NY)
Phebe Taylor Winthrop (1765 - 1841)
Title
Phebe Taylor Winthrop (Mrs. Francis Bayard Winthrop) (1765-1841)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1808
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/302051

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
79.7 x 63.5 cm (31 3/8 x 25 in.)
framed: 94 x 78.1 x 6.4 cm (37 x 30 3/4 x 2 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Francis Bayard Winthrop; by descent to Robert Winthrop (1904-1999); his gift to Harvard University, 1964

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Robert Winthrop, representing the Winthrop family, to Harvard University, 1964
Object Number
H608
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Lawrence Shaw Mayo, The Winthrop Family in America, Massachusetts Historical Society (Boston, MA, 1948), p. 202
  • Harvard University, Winthrop Family Portraits at Harvard: John Winthrop House, Harvard University, brochure (Cambridge, MA, April 1956), p. 9
  • Dorothy B. Wexler, Reared in a Greenhouse: The Stories, and Story of, Dorothy Winthrop Bradford, Garland Publishers, Inc. (New York, NY and London, England, 1998), ill. p. 393, fn 4
  • 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. 480-81, cat. 44, ill.

Verification Level

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