H95: Edward Everett (1794-1865)
Paintings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- H95
- People
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Bass Otis, American (Bridgewater, MA 1784 - 1861 Philadelphia, PA)
Edward Everett (1794 - 1865)
- Title
- Edward Everett (1794-1865)
- Classification
- Paintings
- Work Type
- painting
- Date
- c. 1847
- Places
- Creation Place: North America, United States
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/304643
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
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91.4 x 70.5 cm (36 x 27 3/4 in.)
framed: 110.5 x 89.5 x 9.5 cm (43 1/2 x 35 1/4 x 3 3/4 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- William G. Brooks, Boston, MA; gift to Harvard College, 1865.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of William G. Brooks to Harvard College, 1865
- Object Number
- H95
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Edward Everett was a Unitarian clergyman, statesman, and a famous American orator. He was not only a graduate of Harvard, but also served as president of the University from 1846 to 1849.
Publication History
- The Fifth Exhibition of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association at Fanueil and Quincy Halls, in the City of Boston, September 1847, exh. cat., Dutton and Wentworth (Boston, MA, 1848), p. 80, no. 1388
- William Garrott Brown, A List of Portraits in the Various Buildings of Harvard University, Harvard University Library (Cambridge, MA, 1898), p. 17
- "The Faculty Room in University Hall", Harvard Alumni Bulletin (February 12, 1913), vol. xv, no. 20, pp. 323-328, p. 328
- Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 54, ill. p. 54
- 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. 140, no. 730
- Roland H. Woodward, Gainor B. Davis, and Wayne Craven, Bass Otis: Painter, Portraitist and Engraver, exh. cat., Historical Society of Delaware (Wilmington, DE, 1976), p. 30, no. 49, p. 80, ill. opp. p. 80
- James L. Yarnall and William H. Gerdts, National Museum of American Art's Index to American Art Exhibition Catalogues: From the Beginning through the 1876 Centennial Year, vol. 4, G. K. Hall (Boston, MA, 1986), p. 2646
- 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. 374-75, cat. 339, ill.
Exhibition History
- Fifth Exhibition of the Massachusetts Mechanic Association, Faneuil and Quincy Halls, 09/01/1847 - 09/30/1847
- Bass Otis: Painter, Portraitist, and Engraver, Historical Society of Delaware, Wilmington, 10/15/1976 - 12/31/1976
Verification Level
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