H50: Josiah Quincy (1772-1864)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H50

People

William Page, American (Albany, NY 1811 - 1885 Staten Island, NY)
Josiah Quincy (1772 - 1864)

Title

Josiah Quincy (1772-1864)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

1843

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/304893

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

118.3 x 93.1 cm (46 9/16 x 36 5/8 in.)
framed: 158 x 125 x 9.5 cm (62 3/16 x 49 3/16 x 3 3/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Given by Josiah Quincy, Jr., 1847.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Josiah Quincy Jr. to Harvard College, 1847

Object Number

H50

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• "Boston Notions. Number V", Brother Jonathan (December 2, 1843), vol. 6, p. 385
• Josiah Page Quincy to Hon. S.A. Eliot, 28 January 1847 (1847)., p. 332
• Josiah Quincy Jr. to S.A. Eliot, [1847] (1847), p. 209
• Edmund Quincy, Life of Josiah Quincy of Massachusetts, Ticknor and Fields (Boston, 1867), p. 551
• Susan Nichols Carter, "The President of the National Academy", Appleton's Journal (December 2, 1871), vol. 6, p. 618
• William Howe Downes, "Boston Painters and Paintings III", Atlantic Monthly (September 1888), vol. 62, p. 384
• James Grant Wilson and John Fiske, Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography, D. Appleton & Co. (New York, 1888), vol. 4p. 626
• William Garrott Brown, A List of Portraits in the Various Buildings of Harvard University, Harvard University Library (Cambridge, MA, 1898), p. 35
• Charles William Eliot, Harvard Memories, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1923), p. [47], ill.
• Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 113
• Alan Burroughs, Limners and Likenesses: Three Centuries of American Painting, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 164
• Joshua C. Taylor, William Page: The American Titian, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL, 1957), pp. 65-67, 271, no. 92, ill. fig. 18
• William Howe Downes, "William Page", Dictionary of American Biography (1977), vol. 7, p. 145
• 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. 377-78, cat. 342, ill.

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