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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H659
People
Chester Harding, American (Conway, MA 1792 - 1866 Boston, MA)
Margaret Morton Quincy (1806 - 1882)
Title
Margaret Morton Quincy Greene (Mrs. Benjamin Daniel Greene) (1806-1882)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1826
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/302053

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
76.5 x 64.1 cm (30 1/8 x 25 1/4 in.)
framed: 95.3 x 82.6 x 9.5 cm (37 1/2 x 32 1/2 x 3 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • plaque: Margaret Morton Quincy/ 1806-1882/ Chester Harding

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Bequest of Josiah Quincy to his daughter, Fanny (Francis Huntington) Quincy (1870-1933), 1864; to her husband, Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe(1864-1960); to his son, Mark De Wolfe Howe (1906-1967), 1960; Mr. & Mrs. Faneuil Adams (Mary), Cambridge, MA, 1967; their gift to Harvard University, 1981.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Faneuil Adams, 1981
Object Number
H659
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe, ed., The Articulate Sisters: Passages from Journals and Letters of the Daughters of President Josiah Quincy of Harvard University, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1946), ill. opp. p. 82
  • Leah Lipton, A Truthful Likeness: Chester Harding and His Portraits, exh. cat., National Portrait Gallery (Washington, DC, 1985), p. 176, ill.
  • 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. 241, cat. 191, ill.

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