H42: Wilder Dwight (1833-1862)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H42

People

Eastman Johnson, American (Lovell, ME 1824 - 1906 New York, NY)
Wilder Dwight (1833 - 1862)

Title

Wilder Dwight (1833-1862)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

1863

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/304801

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

59.7 x 49.5 cm (23 1/2 x 19 1/2 in.)
framed: 91.4 x 81.3 x 15.2 cm (36 x 32 x 6 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: Inscribed on verso: Painted by Eastman Johnson in 1863

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Descent through family of sitter.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of the children of Mrs. William Dwight to Harvard College, 1884

Object Number

H42

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. 16
• Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), pp. 49-50
• Teresa A. Carbone and Patricia Hills, Eastman Johnson: Painting America, exh. cat., Brooklyn Museum of Art/Rizzoli International Publications (Brooklyn, NY and New York, NY, 1999), p. 57
• 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), p. 306-7, cat. 266, ill.

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