H517: William Hale (1794-1821)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H517

People

Gilbert Stuart, American (North Kingstown, RI 1755 - 1828 Boston, MA)
William Hale (1794-1821)

Title

William Hale (1794-1821)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

c. 1820

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/304919

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on wood panel

Dimensions

69.3 x 55.1 cm (27 5/16 x 21 11/16 in.)
framed: 88.3 x 74.9 x 11.4 cm (34 3/4 x 29 1/2 x 4 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Commissioned by William Hale, c. 1820; to his daughter, Ellen L. Hale (1817-1893), Boston, wife of John Dalling Parker (1813 1888); to her son, John Dalling Parker, Jr., Boston; to Mrs. John Dalling Parker, Jr.; bequeathed to her daughter, Charlotte A. Parker, Boston, owner in 1926; to Percy Selden Straus (merchant, R. H. Macy & Co.); his gift to Harvard Business School,Harvard University,1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Percy Selden Straus, 1943

Object Number

H517

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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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. 1, pp. 376-377, no. 366; vol. III, ill. p. 220
• 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), p. 459, cat. 425, ill.

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