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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H32
People
Chester Harding, American (Conway, MA 1792 - 1866 Boston, MA)
George Hamilton Gordon (1784 - 1860)
Title
George Hamilton Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (1784-1860)
Other Titles
Former Title: Lord Aberdeen
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1847
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/304500

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
92.2 x 72.1 cm (36 5/16 x 28 3/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Gift of Dr. William Everett to Harvard College, 1867.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Dr. William Everett to Harvard College, 1867
Object Number
H32
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Chester Harding, My Egotistography, John Wilson and Son (Cambridge, MA, 1866), pp. 160-61
  • Osmond Tiffany, "Chester Harding, The Self-Made Artist", Lippincott's Magazine (January 1874), vol. 12, p. 72, p. 72
  • Moses King, King's Handbook of Springfield, Massachusetts, James D. Gill, Publisher (Springfield, MA, 1884), p. 163
  • P.W. Clayden, Rogers and His Contemporaries: Volume 2, Smith, Elder and Co. (London, 1889), p. 289
  • Margaret E. White, A Sketch of Chester Harding, Artist, Drawn By His Own Hand, Kennedy Galleries, Inc. and Da Capo Press (New York, NY, 1890 [reprint 1970]), pp. 177-78
  • Robert Charles Winthrop, Reminiscences of Foreign Travel: A Fragment of Autobiography (Boston, MA [privately printed], 1894), p. 53
  • William Garrott Brown, A List of Portraits in the Various Buildings of Harvard University, Harvard University Library (Cambridge, MA, 1898), pp. 5, 20
  • Robert Shackleton, "A Benvenuto of the Backwoods", Harper's Magazine (July 1916), vol. 133, [p. 277], p. [277]
  • Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 63
  • Leah Lipton, A Truthful Likeness: Chester Harding and His Portraits, exh. cat., National Portrait Gallery (Washington, DC, 1985), pp. 37, 134, 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. 247, cat. 198, ill.

Exhibition History

  • Unidentified Exhibition, Boston Athenaeum, 1848, Boston Athenaeum, 01/01/1848 - 12/31/1848
  • Unidentified Exhibition, Connecticut Valley Historical Museum, 1952, Connecticut Valley Historical Museum, Springfield, 05/19/1952 - 06/24/1952

Verification Level

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