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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H389
People
Attributed to Thomas Hudson, British (Devon, England 1701 - 1779 Twickenham, England)
Jonathan Belcher (1681/82 - 1757)
Title
Jonathan Belcher (1681/82-1757)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
18th century
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/304771

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
126.9 x 101 cm (49 15/16 x 39 3/4 in.)
framed: 138.4 x 115.6 x 8.9 cm (54 1/2 x 45 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • label: bottom of frame, gilded wood: Jonathan Belcher/1681-1757

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Descended in Belcher family, Devonshire, England.
Sold to dealer, Arthur Appleby, London.
Sold to Spink & Son Ltd., London.
Sold To J.P. Morgan, New York, 1929.
His gift to Harvard University, 1929.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan to Harvard University, 1929
Object Number
H389
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Loan Exhibition of One Hundred Colonial Portraits, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1930), ill. p. 13
  • Frederic Fairchild Sherman, Early American Painting, The Century Co. (New York and London, 1932), p. 29, p. 49, pl. 8
  • Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 17
  • Annals of America, Encyclopaedia Britannica (Chicago, IL, 1968 - 1969), vol. I
  • John W. Tyler, ed., The Correspondence of Thomas Hutchinson, Volume I: 1740-1766, The Colonial Society of Massachusetts (Boston, 2014), p. 94, reproduced.

Exhibition History

  • Loan Exhibition of One Hundred Colonial Portraits: Massachusetts Bay Colony Tercentenary, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 06/19/1930 - 09/21/1930

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