H63: Fisher Ames (1758-1808)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H63

People

Gilbert Stuart, American (North Kingstown, RI 1755 - 1828 Boston, MA)
Fisher Ames (1758 - 1808)
Frame by John Doggett

Title

Fisher Ames (1758-1808)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

c. 1810

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States, Massachusetts

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/304485

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on wood panel

Dimensions

71.1 x 56.9 cm (28 x 22 3/8 in.)
framed: 90.2 x 77.2 x 9.8 cm (35 1/2 x 30 3/8 x 3 7/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Commissioned by Isaac P. Davis and other gentlemen of Boston, 1810; their gift to Harvard University.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift by subscription of Isaac P. Davis and other gentlemen of Boston, 1810

Accession Year

1810

Object Number

H63

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• James Grant Wilson and John Fiske, Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography, D. Appleton & Co. (New York, 1888), vol. 5, p. 729
• George C. Mason, The Life and Works of Gilbert Stuart, Charles Scribner's Sons (New York, NY, 1894), p. 127
• William Garrott Brown, A List of Portraits in the Various Buildings of Harvard University, Harvard University Library (Cambridge, MA, 1898), p. 6
• Lawrence Park, Gilbert Stuart: An lllustrated Descriptive List of His Works, vol. I - IV, W. E. Rudge (New York, NY, 1926), vol. I, pp. 99-100, no. 15
• Cuthbert Lee, Early American Portrait Painters: The Fourteen Principal Earliest Native-born Painters, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT, 1929), p. 38
• Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), pp. 11-12
• Historical Records Survey, Division of Professional and Service Projects, Works Progress Administration, American Portraits, 1620-1825, found in Massachusetts, Volumes 1 and 2, Historical Records Survey (Boston, MA, 1939), p. 11, cat. 53
• Sandra Grindlay, "Harvard's Portraits: An American Treasure", Harvard University Art Museums Review (Fall 1992), vol. II, no. 1, pp. 6-7, p. 6
• 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. 24, 454-55, cat. 420, ill.
• Ethan Lasser, ed., The Philosophy Chamber: Art and Science in Harvard’s Teaching Cabinet, 1766–1820, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2017), p. 264 in Andrew Gelfand's "Chronology"

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