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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H4
People
Nathaniel Smibert, American (Boston, MA 1735 - 1756 Boston, MA)
Title
Portrait of a Cleric
Other Titles
Former Title: Portrait of a Man
Former Title: Charles Chauncy (1592-1672)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1755-1756
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/304845

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
123 x 96.5 cm (48 7/16 x 38 in.)
framed: 142.2 x 116.2 x 5.1 cm (56 x 45 3/4 x 2 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Gift of Pres. Quincy, F. C. Lowell, R. G. Shaw, and sundry members of the Board to Harvard College, 1847

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Pres. Quincy, F. C. Lowell, R. G. Shaw, and sundry members of the Board to Harvard College, 1847
Object Number
H4
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • New England Historic Genealogical Society, New England Historical & Genealogical Register, New England Historic Genealogical Society (Boston, MA, 1856), p.
  • William Garrott Brown, A List of Portraits in the Various Buildings of Harvard University, Harvard University Library (Cambridge, MA, 1898), p. 12
  • The Harvard Graduates' Magazine (Cambridge, MA, December 1907), p. 248
  • Charles Knowles Bolton, The Founders: portraits of persons born abroad who came to the colonies in North America before the year 1701, Boston Athenaeum (Boston, MA, 1919 - 1926), vol. II, p. 549
  • William Wood and Ralph Henry Gabriel, The Winning of Freedom, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT, 1927)
  • Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), pp. 38-39, ill. p. 39
  • Alan Burroughs, Limners and Likenesses: Three Centuries of American Painting, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), pp. 29-30
  • Annals of America, Encyclopaedia Britannica (Chicago, IL, 1968 - 1969), vol. I, ill.
  • Robert M. Bartlett, The Faith of the Pilgrims: An American Heritage, United Church Press (New York/Philadelphia, 1978), ill. opp. p. 194
  • Emory Elliott, ed., American Colonial Writers, 1606-1734, Bruccoli Clark Layman, Inc. (Detroit, MI, 1984), ill. p. 52
  • Michael G. Hall, The Last American Puritan: The Life of Increase Mather (1639-1723), Wesleyan University Press (Middletown, CT, 1988), ill. p. 56
  • Norman B. Gibbs and Lee W. Gibbs, "Charles Chauncy: A Theology in Two Portraits", The Harvard Theological Review (July 1990), pp. 259-270, pp. 259-270, ill. p. 269
  • 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. 434-35, cat. 396, ill.

Exhibition History

  • Old South, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 05/06/1969 - 06/01/1969

Verification Level

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