H599: Adam Winthrop (1498-1562)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H599

People

Unidentified Artist
Adam Winthrop (1498-1562)

Title

Adam Winthrop (1498-1562)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

c. 1650- 1700

Places

Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom

Culture

British

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/304970

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

52.7 x 41.9 cm (20 3/4 x 16 1/2 in.)
framed: 66.4 x 54.9 x 5.7 cm (26 1/8 x 21 5/8 x 2 1/4 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Robert Winthrop, representing the Winthrop family, to Harvard University, 1964

Object Number

H599

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Lawrence Shaw Mayo, The Winthrop Family in America, Massachusetts Historical Society (Boston, MA, 1948), pp. 3-5
• Harvard University, Winthrop Family Portraits at Harvard: John Winthrop House, Harvard University, brochure (Cambridge, MA, April 1956), p. 3
• "Winthrop Gift", Harvard Alumni Bulletin, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, June 5, 1965), pp. 669-670
• Andrew Oliver, Ann Millspaugh Huff, and Edward W. Hanson, Portraits in the Massachusetts Historical Society: An Illustrated Catalogue with Descriptive Matter, Massachusetts Historical Society (Boston, MA, 1988), p. 122
• Dorothy B. Wexler, Reared in a Greenhouse: The Stories, and Story of, Dorothy Winthrop Bradford, Garland Publishers, Inc. (New York, NY and London, England, 1998), p.6, 8; ill. p. 187

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