Harvard Art Museums > H97: Henry Flynt (1675-1760) Paintings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Henry Flynt (1675-1760) (John Greenwood)(Henry Flynt) , H97,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Nov 24, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/304644. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number H97 People John Greenwood, American (Boston, MA 1727 - 1792 Margate, England) Henry Flynt (1675 - 1760) Title Henry Flynt (1675-1760) Classification Paintings Work Type painting Date c. 1749-1750 Culture American Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/304644 Physical Descriptions Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 73.7 x 62.2 cm (29 x 24 1/2 in.) framed: 87 x 77.2 x 5.7 cm (34 1/4 x 30 3/8 x 2 1/4 in.) Provenance Recorded Ownership History Henry Flynt (?); his nephew, Jonathan Jackson; his gift to Harvard College, 1787. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Jonathan Jackson to Harvard College, 1787 Object Number H97 Division European and American Art Contact am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Publication History William Garrott Brown, A List of Portraits in the Various Buildings of Harvard University, Harvard University Library (Cambridge, MA, 1898), p. 18 Daniel Munro Wilson, Where American Independence Began. Quincy, its famous group of patriots; their deeds, homes, and descendants, Houghton Mifflin Company (Boston and New York, 1902), ill. pp. 230-231 Clifford K. Shipton, Biographical Sketches of Those Who Attended Harvard College, Vol. 7, 1722-1755, Massachusetts Historical Society (Cambridge, MA, 1933), ill.pp. 162-63 Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), pp. 56-57, ill. p. 57 Alan Burroughs, Limners and Likenesses: Three Centuries of American Painting, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 52 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. 148, cat. 773 Alan Burroughs, "Five Harvard Portraits", Bulletin of the Fogg Art Museum, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, November 1941), vol. IX, no. 5, pp. 106-109, pp. 106-109, ill. "Burroughs Reevaluates Greenwood, Colonial", Art Magazine (January 1, 1942), vol. XIV, p. 21, ill. Alan Burroughs, John Greenwood in America, 1745-1752: A Monograph With Notes and a Check List, Addison Gallery of American Art (Andover, MA, 1943), pp. 59, 64 "The Portraits in the Faculty Room, University Hall", Harvard Alumni Bulletin (October 12, 1963), vol. 66, pp. 72-75, ill. p. 72 Clifford K. Shipton, New England Life in the 18th Century, Representative Biographies from Sibley's Harvard Graduates, Belknap Press (Cambridge, MA, 1963), pp. vii, 7 Paul Revere's Boston: 1735-1818, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1975), pp. 68, 211, cat. 77, ill. p. 68 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. 23, 30, 234-35, cat 185, ill. Harvard & The Legacy of Slavery, website, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, April 25, 2022, p. 67, 128 Exhibition History Paul Revere's Boston 1735-1818, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 04/18/1975 - 10/12/1975 Related Works Straus.6994 Artist of original: John Greenwood X-radiograph(s) of "Henry Flynt" Photographs Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu