H48: Samuel Adams (1722-1803), after John Singleton Copley (1738-1815)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H48

People

Bass Otis, American (Bridgewater, MA 1784 - 1861 Philadelphia, PA)
Samuel Adams (1722 - 1803)
John Singleton Copley, American (Boston, MA 1738 - 1815 London, England)
Previously attributed to John Singleton Copley, American (Boston, MA 1738 - 1815 London, England)

Title

Samuel Adams (1722-1803), after John Singleton Copley (1738-1815)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

c. 1818

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/304850

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on wood panel

Dimensions

34.9 x 24.4 cm (13 3/4 x 9 5/8 in.)
framed: 51.3 x 41 x 7.9 cm (20 3/16 x 16 1/8 x 3 1/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Thomas Melville (1751-1832), Malden, MA; to his daughter, Priscilla Melvill, Malden, MA; her bequest to Harvard College, 1863.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Bequest of Priscilla Melvill, 1863, to Harvard College

Object Number

H48

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Thirty-Eighth Annual Report of the President of Harvard College to the Overseers, Exhibiting the State of the Institution for the Academic Year 1862-63 (Cambridge, MA, 1864), p. 4
• Justin Winsor, The Memorial History of Boston, James R. Osgood & Co. (Boston, MA, 1881), vol. II, p. 438
• William Garrott Brown, A List of Portraits in the Various Buildings of Harvard University, Harvard University Library (Cambridge, MA, 1898), p. 20
• Frank William Bayley, A Sketch of the Life and a List of Some of the Works of John Singleton Copley, The Garden Press, W. B. Libby (Boston, MA, 1910), p. 10
• Cuthbert Lee, Early American Portrait Painters: The Fourteen Principal Earliest Native-born Painters, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT, 1929), p. 74
• Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), pp. 8-9
• Barbara N. Parker and Anne Bolling Wheeler, John Singleton Copley: American Portraits in Oil, Pastel and Miniature, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1938), p. 19, no. 3
• 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. 7, cat. 35
• Linda Ayres, Harvard Divided, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1976), pp. 23-24, cat. 3, ill.
• 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. 372-73, cat. 337, ill.

Exhibition History

• Harvard Divided, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/03/1976 - 10/10/1976

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