H655: Thomas Walter Ward, Sr. (1758-1835)

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

Permissions

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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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