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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H94
People
Unidentified Artist
After Gilbert Stuart, American (North Kingstown, RI 1755 - 1828 Boston, MA)
Samuel Eliot (1739 - 1820)
Previously attributed to Jane Stuart, American (Boston, MA c. 1808 - 1888 Newport, RI)
Previously attributed to Gilbert Stuart, American (North Kingstown, RI 1755 - 1828 Boston, MA)
Title
Samuel Eliot (1739-1820)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1806-1826
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/304576

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
84.5 x 69.2 cm (33 1/4 x 27 1/4 in.)
framed: 108 x 94 x 12.7 cm (42 1/2 x 37 x 5 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Samuel Eliot; to his son, Samuel Atkins Eliot; to his son, Charles William Eliot, Cambridge, MA; his gift to Harvard University, 1926.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Charles William Eliot to Harvard University, 1926
Object Number
H94
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. 16
  • Cuthbert Lee, Early American Portrait Painters: The Fourteen Principal Earliest Native-born Painters, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT, 1929), p. 38
  • Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 52
  • J. Bell Whitfield Jr., Patriot-Improvers: Biographical Sketches of Members of the American Philosophical Society, Volume One (1743-1768), American Philosophical Society (Philadelphia, PA, 1997), p. 468, ill. p. 470
  • 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. 467, cat. 432, ill.

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