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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H590
People
Unidentified Artist
Joseph Dudley (1647 - 1720)
Title
Joseph Dudley (1647-1720), after an English artist
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1702
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/304995

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
73.5 x 60.4 cm (28 15/16 x 23 3/4 in.)
framed: 87.6 x 74.3 x 6.4 cm (34 1/2 x 29 1/4 x 2 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • label: brass plaque "JOSEPH DUDLEY/ 1627-1720/ GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS, 1702-1713"

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Probably to the family of Ann Dudley Winthrop, daughter of the sitter; descent through family to Frederic Winthrop.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Frederic Winthrop, 1962
Object Number
H590
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
This is a copy after a portrait that is owned by Massachusetts Historical Society.

Publication History

  • Historical Records Survey, Division of Professional and Service Projects, Works Progress Administration, American Portraits, 1620-1825, found in Massachusetts, Volumes 1 and 2, Historical Records Survey (Boston, MA, 1939), p. 123
  • Jonathan L. Fairbanks and Robert F. Trent, New England Begins: The Seventeenth Century, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1982), p. 415, cat. 431, ill.
  • 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. 35, 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), p. 488, cat. 452, ill.

Exhibition History

  • New England Begins: The Seventeenth Century, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 05/05/1982 - 08/22/1982

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