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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H8
People
Unidentified Artist
John Winthrop (1588-1649)
Title
John Winthrop (1588-1649)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1750-1775
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/304846

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
91.4 x 73.3 cm (36 x 28 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: on rolled-up manuscript: Winthrops Journal/at New England/1635 Feb. 16.../The Blessing/of Bay sailed to/Took in freight...

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Gift of Adam Winthrop, 1840.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Adam Winthrop, 1840
Object Number
H8
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • William Howe Downes, "Boston Painters and Paintings, Part I: The Pre-Copleyites, Copley, Trumbull", The Atlantic Monthly (Boston, MA, July 1888), vol. 62 no. 369, pp. 89-98., p. 90
  • William Garrott Brown, A List of Portraits in the Various Buildings of Harvard University, Harvard University Library (Cambridge, MA, 1898), p. 44
  • 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), p. 654
  • Louisa Dresser, XVIIth Century Painting in New England, exh. cat., Worcester Art Museum (Worcester, MA, 1935), p. 158
  • Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), pp. 149-150
  • 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. 476, cat. 2521
  • James Levitt, "Financial Innovation for Conservation: An American Tradition", From Walden to Wall Street: Frontiers of Conservation Finance, ed. James Levitt, Island Press (Washington, DC, 2005), pp. 1-21, p. 5, fig. 1.1
  • 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. 369, 505-06, cat. 469, ill.
  • Scott C. Steward and Chip Rowe, The Descendants of Robert Winthrop of New York, Newbury Street Press (Boston, 2017), repr. as pl. I, n.p.

Exhibition History

  • XVIIth Century Painting in New England, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, 07/01/1934 - 08/31/1934

Verification Level

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