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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H76
People
Charles Osgood, American (Salem, MA 1809 - 1890 Salem, MA)
Sir Richard Saltonstall (1586 - 1658)
Title
Sir Richard Saltonstall (1586-1658), after a 17th-century Dutch original attributed to Abraham de Vries (c. 1590-1650/52)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1840-1852
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/304562

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
88.2 x 64.9 cm (34 3/4 x 25 9/16 in.)
framed: 120.7 x 97.8 x 7.6 cm (47 1/2 x 38 1/2 x 3 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: inscribed verso (not in artist's hand): from Original painted in Holland in 1644/copied by Robert Gordon Hardie 1899"
    (an execution date of 1899 is inconsistent with the date of gift, recorded as 1852; the mark is not in artist's hand, and is incorrect)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Gift of Leverett Saltonstall to Harvard College, 1852

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Leverett Saltonstall to Harvard College, 1852
Object Number
H76
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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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. 37
  • Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 120
  • 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. 356, cat. 1889
  • 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), p. 88
  • 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.368-69, cat. 333, ill.

Verification Level

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