H562: Epes Sargent (1813-1880)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H562

People

Samuel Stillman Osgood, American (New Haven, CT 1808 - 1885 California)
Epes Sargent, American (1813 - 1880)

Title

Epes Sargent (1813-1880)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

c. 1831

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/304946

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

68.8 x 55.9 cm (27 1/16 x 22 in.)
framed: 88.9 x 77.5 x 4.1 cm (35 x 30 1/2 x 1 5/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• plaque: bronze plaque: "EPES SARGENT 1813-1880/ Poet and Journalist/ By Samuel Osgood"

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Bequest of Miss Georgiana Sargent to Harvard College, 1942.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Bequest of Miss Georgiana Sargent to Harvard College, 1942

Object Number

H562

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Emma Worcester Sargent and Charles Sprague Sargent, Epes Sargent of Gloucester and His Descendents, Houghton Mifflin Company (Boston, MA, 1923), p. 34
• Ellen B. Ballou, "The Artist and the Admiral", The New-England Galaxy, Old Sturbridge Village (Sturbridge, MA, Winter 1963), vol. 5, pp. 21, 28, ill.
• Alan Fraser Houston, "Worth Their Weight in Gold: The Portraits of John Augustus Sutter by Samuel Stillman Osgood, Gold Rush Artist", The Pioneer (December 2000), vol. 23, p. 25
• 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. 370-71, cat. 335, ill.

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