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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
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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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