H97: Henry Flynt (1675-1760)

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

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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. 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

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