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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H555
People
Gilbert Stuart, American (North Kingstown, RI 1755 - 1828 Boston, MA)
Sally Otis Thorndike (Mrs. Israel Thorndike) (1793 - 1819)
Title
Sally Otis Thorndike (Mrs. Israel Thorndike, Jr.) (1793-1819)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1811
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/304915

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on wood panel
Dimensions
83 x 66.7 cm (32 11/16 x 26 1/4 in.)
framed: 95.3 x 78.7 x 7.6 cm (37 1/2 x 31 x 3 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Mrs. Israel (Sally Otis) Thorndike, c. 1811; bequest to her daughter, Mrs. George H. Thorndike, Newport, RI, 1819 (she married a distant cousin of the same name); bequest to niece, Elizabeth Oelrichs. (Elizabeth Wilhelmine Blancke Oelrichs), Detmold, Germany; bequest to her nephew, Robert Oelrichs; Knoedler & Co. Inc., New York; sold to Mrs. Sidney A. Kirkman, 1931; to Earl Morse.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Earl Morse, 1954
Object Number
H555
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Lawrence Park, Gilbert Stuart: An lllustrated Descriptive List of His Works, vol. I - IV, W. E. Rudge (New York, NY, 1926), vol. II, p. 751, no. 837
  • Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, Peter G. Huenink, Earl A. Powell III, Harry Z. Rand, and Nanette C. Sexton, American Art at Harvard, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1972), cat. 25, 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. 455-56, cat. 421, ill.

Exhibition History

  • American Art at Harvard, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/19/1972 - 06/18/1972
  • Painted in Boston, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 07/02/1980 - 08/26/1980
  • GenEd US12 American Encounters: Art, Contact, and Conflict, 1560-1860 (S427) Spring 2012, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/31/2012 - 05/12/2012

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