H35: Samuel Appleton (1766-1853)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H35

People

Gilbert Stuart Newton, British (Halifax, Nova Scotia 1794 - 1835 London, England)
Samuel Appleton (1766-1853)

Title

Samuel Appleton (1766-1853)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

1818

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/304849

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

91.4 x 71.1 cm (36 x 28 in.)
framed: 113 x 92.1 x 11.4 cm (44 1/2 x 36 1/4 x 4 1/2 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: l. r.: G. S. Newton/1818

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

The sitter; to his nephew, Thomas G. Appleton, 1853; his bequest to Harvard College, 1884.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Bequest of Thomas G. Appleton to Harvard College, 1884

Object Number

H35

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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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. 7
• Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 15
• 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. 356, cat. 321, ill.

Exhibition History

• Unidentified Exhibition, Boston Art Club, 1911, Boston Art Club, Boston, 11/01/1911 - 12/31/1911

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