H56: Christopher Gore (1758-1827)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H56

People

John Trumbull, American (Lebanon, CT 1756 - 1843 New York, NY)
Christopher Gore (1758 - 1827)

Title

Christopher Gore (1758-1827)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

c. 1816

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/304555

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

76.2 x 63.1 cm (30 x 24 13/16 in.)
framed: 101.3 x 88.6 x 8.3 cm (39 7/8 x 34 7/8 x 3 1/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Christopher Gore (1758-1827); to his wife, Rebecca Amory Payne (1759-1834); upon her death in 1834 to her nephew, William E. Payne Esq. (1804-1838); his gift to Harvard University, 1834.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Dr. William E. Payne, 1834

Object Number

H56

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• William Garrott Brown, A List of Portraits in the Various Buildings of Harvard University, Harvard University Library (Cambridge, MA, 1898), p. 20
• Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 63
• 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. 171, cat. 893
• Mary Bartlett Cowdrey, American Academy of Fine Arts and American Art-Union: Exhibition Record, 1816-1852, New York Historical Society (New York, NY, 1953), p. 355
• Irma B. Jaffe, John Trumbull: Patriot-Artist of the American Revolution, New York Graphic Society (Boston, 1975), p. 309
• Peter A. Wick, "Gore Place", The Magazine Antiques (New York, NY, 1976)
• Andrew Oliver, Ann Millspaugh Huff, and Edward W. Hanson, Portraits in the Massachusetts Historical Society: An Illustrated Catalogue with Descriptive Matter, Massachusetts Historical Society (Boston, MA, 1988), pp. 43-44
• 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. 481-82, cat. 445, ill.

Exhibition History

• 1816 Exhibition, American Academy of Fine Arts, 01/01/1816 - 12/31/1816

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