H57: Thomas Palmer (1743-1820)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H57

People

Gilbert Stuart Newton, British (Halifax, Nova Scotia 1794 - 1835 London, England)
Thomas Palmer (1743-1820)

Title

Thomas Palmer (1743-1820)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

c. 1818-1820

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/304851

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

90.8 x 71.1 cm (35 3/4 x 28 in.)
framed: 121.9 x 101.6 x 10.2 cm (48 x 40 x 4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• plaque: THOMAS PALMER, 1743-1820/ Classical Scholar and Benefactor of the Library/ By Gilbert Stuart Newton

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Bequest of the sitter to Harvard University, 1820.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Bequest of Thomas Palmer to Harvard University, 1820

Object Number

H57

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. 33
• Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), pp. 104-105
• 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. 298, cat. 1587
• John Langdon Sibley, Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1970), vol. 15, p. 91
• Dorinda Evans, Benjamin West and his American Pupils, exh. cat., National Collection of Fine Arts (Washington, D.C, 1980), ill.
• M. A. Huub Everaert, "Een zoektocht naar de aard van man-vrouw relaties onder Surinaamse slaven" (1999), Universiteit van Amsterdam, p. 92, ill.
• Dorinda Evans, Gilbert Stuart and the Impact of Manic Depression, Ashgate Publishing (Surrey, England, 2013), pp. xiii, 154, fig. 75
• 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. 24, 357, cat. 322, ill.

Exhibition History

• Benjamin West and his American Students, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, 10/16/1980 - 01/04/1981; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 01/30/1981 - 04/19/1981

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