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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H655
People
Thomas Truman Spear, American (Boston, MA 1803 - 1882 Boston, MA)
Thomas Walter Ward Sr. (1758 - 1835)
Title
Thomas Walter Ward, Sr. (1758-1835)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1850
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, Massachusetts, Boston
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/304515

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
92.1 x 74 cm (36 1/4 x 29 1/8 in.)
framed: 114.6 x 97.5 x 11.4 cm (45 1/8 x 38 3/8 x 4 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r.: Thos. T. Spear / 1850
  • inscription: Inscribed verso: center: Thos. Spear/ Boston 1850/ Taken at the age of 45[?]; verso, l.l.: Thomas W. Ward, Sheriff of/Worcester County Mas/ from 1805 to 182[9]/ (copy)
  • label: verso l.r: canvas stencil: J.J. ADAMS/99 WASHINGTON STREET/BOSTON
  • plaque: plaque: Thomas Walter Ward/ 1785-1835/ copy by Thomas Truman Spear.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Thomas Walter Ward, Sr., Shrewsbury, MA, sitter; to Nahum Ward, Marietta, OH, his son' to William Skinner Ward, Marietta OH, his grandson; to Agnes Ward White, Parkersburg, WV, his granddaughter; to Katherine Vaughn Wolfe, Parkersburg, WV, his great-great granddaughter; to Mrs. Alden D. Eddy (Elizabeth Wolfe), Raleigh, NC, his great-great-great grandaughter; her gift to Harvard, 1980.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Mrs. Alden D. Eddy, 1980
Object Number
H655
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • 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. 441, 501, cat. 402, ill.

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