H660: Joseph Coolidge (1747-1820)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H660

People

Gilbert Stuart, American (North Kingstown, RI 1755 - 1828 Boston, MA)
Joseph Coolidge (1747-1820)

Title

Joseph Coolidge (1747-1820)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

1813

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States, Massachusetts, Boston

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/305022

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on wood panel

Dimensions

71.2 x 57.3 cm (28 1/16 x 22 9/16 in.)
framed: 90.2 x 76.8 x 9.2 cm (35 1/2 x 30 1/4 x 3 5/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Commissioned by Joseph Coolidge (1747-1820), Boston, MA, 1813; bequest to Joseph Coolidge (1798-1879); descent in family; bequest to Joseph Randolph Coolidge IV, Cushing, Maine; his bequest to Harvard University, 1981.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Bequest of Joseph Randolph Coolidge, 1981

Object Number

H660

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. I, p. 237, no. 186
• 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. 92, cat. 487
• 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. 456-57, cat. 422, ill.

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