Harvard Art Museums > H8: John Winthrop (1588-1649) Paintings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"John Winthrop (1588-1649) (Unidentified Artist)(John Winthrop) , H8,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Dec 26, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/304846. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. 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 Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. 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 This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
