H11: Samuel Cooper Thacher (1785-1818)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H11

People

Gilbert Stuart Newton, British (Halifax, Nova Scotia 1794 - 1835 London, England)
Samuel Cooper Thacher (1785 - 1818)

Title

Samuel Cooper Thacher (1785-1818)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

c. 1815-1816

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/304884

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on wood panel

Dimensions

67.5 x 56.2 cm (26 9/16 x 22 1/8 in.)
framed: 88.9 x 78.7 x 52.1 cm (35 x 31 x 20 1/2 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• plaque: Samuel Cooper Thacher/ 1785-1818/ Stuart Newton
• inscription: Inscribed and signed on verso: S. C. Thacher/ S. Newton

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

The sitter; by descent to Gorham Parsons; his gift to Harvard University, 1843.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Gorham Parsons to Harvard University, 1843

Object Number

H11

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. 40
• Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), pp. 132-133
• 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. 402, cat. 2121
• Diana L. Eck, Hanging Around Lowell House: The Portraits of Lowell House, brochure (Cambridge, MA, 2012), p. 15, 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. 353-54, cat. 318, ill.

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