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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H392
People
Jane Stuart, American (Boston, MA c. 1808 - 1888 Newport, RI)
After Gilbert Stuart, American (North Kingstown, RI 1755 - 1828 Boston, MA)
George Washington (1732 - 1799)
Title
George Washington (1732-1799), after Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1850-1860
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/304752

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
77.5 x 64.4 cm (30 1/2 x 25 3/8 in.)
framed: 94.6 x 82.2 x 8.3 cm (37 1/4 x 32 3/8 x 3 1/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Purchased from the artist by Professor Edward Charles Pickering (1846-1919), c. 1874-88; his bequest to Harvard, 1919.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Bequest of Professor Edward C. Pickering to Harvard University, 1919
Object Number
H392
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), pp. 143-144
  • 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. 438, cat. 2316
  • 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. 469-70, cat. 435, ill.

Exhibition History

  • Washington Memorial Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 03/01/1932 - 03/31/1932

Verification Level

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