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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H18
People
Unidentified Artist
Samuel Willard (1640 - 1707)
Title
The Reverend Samuel Willard (1640-1707)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1700-1707
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/304847

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
73.6 x 63.8 cm (29 x 25 1/8 in.)
framed: 92.7 x 82.2 x 7 cm (36 1/2 x 32 3/8 x 2 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • label: frame, paper: Foster Brother/4 Park Square/Boston/Pictures and Frames/Order No. 66
  • label: backing board (removed; see curatorial file): S.E. No. 2970.2/Museum of Fine Arts/ Boston, Massachusetts/Special Loan Exhibition/of/Samuel Sewall

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
From the sitter to his daughter, Mrs. Abigail Treat; her bequest to her grandson, Judge Robert Treat Paine (1731-1814), 1747; to his children, 1814; to son Robert Treat Paine, 1842; his gift to Harvard College, 1842.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Robert Treat Paine to Harvard College, 1842
Object Number
H18
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. 44
  • Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), pp. 147-148, ill. p. 149
  • 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. 465, cat. 2466
  • Richard Francis, Judge Sewall's Apology: The Salem Witch Trials and the Forming of an American Conscience, Harper Collins (US) (New York, NY, 2005), ill. p. 158
  • Peter J. Theusen, Predestination: The American Career of a Contentious Doctrine, Oxford University Press (UK) (Cambridge, 2009), ill. p. 53
  • 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. 503, cat. 467, ill.
  • Ken Bresler, The Witch Trial Trail of Boston and the Harvard Witch Walk: The People and Places of Boston and Harvard Connected with the Salem Witch Trials (2023), p. 27, repr.

Exhibition History

  • Samuel Sewall and His Contemporaries, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 04/17/1959 - 05/21/1959
  • Old South, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 05/06/1969 - 06/01/1969

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