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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H467
People
William Page, American (Albany, NY 1811 - 1885 Staten Island, NY)
Thomas Wren Ward (1786 - 1858)
Title
Thomas Wren Ward (1786-1858)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1844-1847
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/304844

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
76.2 x 63.8 cm (30 x 25 1/8 in.)
framed: 94 x 80 x 12.7 cm (37 x 31 1/2 x 5 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • label: verso, on frame: Thomas Wren Ward, Esq/1788-1858/William Page/1811-1885
  • label: verso, on frame: TREASURER OF HARVARD COLLEGE/1830-1842

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Bequest of the sitter to his sons, Samuel Gray Ward and George Cabot Ward; their gift to Harvard, 1877; unknown location, c 1899-1905; art market, 1905; purchased by the sitter's grandson, Thomas Wren Ward II; to his daughter Louise Endicott (Mrs. William Crowninshield Endicott, Jr.); her gift to Harvard College, 1936.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Mrs. William C. Endicott, Jr., 1936
Object Number
H467
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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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. 42
  • Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 141
  • Joshua C. Taylor, William Page: The American Titian, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL, 1957), pp. 67-68; 275, no. 118, ill. fig. 19
  • "William Morris Hunt: Portraits from Photographs", American Art Journal (April 1979), vol. 11, p. 54
  • 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. 379-80, cat. 344, ill.
  • Ronald H. Epp, Creating Acadia National Park: The Biography of George Bucknam Dorr, Friends of Acadia (Bar Harbor, Maine, 2016), repr. as color plate

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