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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H36
People
Chester Harding, American (Conway, MA 1792 - 1866 Boston, MA)
Israel Munson (1767 - 1844)
Title
Israel Munson (1767-1844)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1835-1844
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/304887

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
91.4 x 71.1 cm (36 x 28 in.)
framed: 109.2 x 90.2 x 6.4 cm (43 x 35 1/2 x 2 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • plaque: ISRAEL MUNSON, 1767-1844/ Benefactor of Harvard College/ By Chester Harding
  • inscription: on verso (not in artist's hand): Chas. Barnard, Milton [Barnard was the executor of Israel Munson's estate]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Perhaps the gift of the sitter's business partner and executor, Charles Barnard, c. 1844.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection
Object Number
H36
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • M. A. MacDonald, "Before the Loyalists: The Material Culture of New Brunswick's Early English Settlers", Material History Bulletin (Bulletin d'histoire de la culture materielle) (Fall/Automne 1988), vol. 28, pp., pp. 25, 33
  • William Garrott Brown, A List of Portraits in the Various Buildings of Harvard University, Harvard University Library (Cambridge, MA, 1898), p. 31
  • "Paintings in Randall Hall", Harvard Alumni Bulletin (January 24, 1912), vol. 14, p. 259, p. 259
  • "The Fine Arts. Harvard Portraits:, Boston Evening Transcript (January 13, 1912), p. 3, p. 3
  • Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 100
  • "The Portraits in the Faculty Room, University Hall", Harvard Alumni Bulletin (October 12, 1963), vol. 66, p. 74
  • Leah Lipton, A Truthful Likeness: Chester Harding and His Portraits, exh. cat., National Portrait Gallery (Washington, DC, 1985), p. 171, ill.
  • M. A. MacDonald, Rebels and Royalists: The Lives and Material Culture of New Brunswick's Early English-Speaking Settlers 1758-1783, New Ireland Press (Fredericton, N.B., 1990), pp. 115, 125
  • 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. 243-44, cat. 194, ill.

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