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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H95
People
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
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
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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

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