H608: Phebe Taylor Winthrop (Mrs. Francis Bayard Winthrop) (1765-1841)

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

Permissions

The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request.

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