H602: Wait Still Winthrop (1642-1717)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H602

People

Unidentified Artist
Wait Still Winthrop (1642 - 1717)

Title

Wait Still Winthrop (1642-1717)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

c. 1700-1705

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/305063

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

76.2 x 63.8 cm (30 x 25 1/8 in.)
framed: 94 x 81.3 x 4.5 cm (37 x 32 x 1 3/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

The sitter; to his son, John Winthrop F.R.S. (d. 1747); to his son, John Still Winthrop (d. 1776); to his son, Francis Bayard Winthrop (d. 1817); to his son, Thomas Charles Winthrop (d. 1873); to his son, Robert Winthrop (d. 1892); to his son, Grenville L. Winthrop (d. 1943); to his nephew, Robert Winthrop (1904-1999, Harvard Class of 1926), 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

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

Object Number

H602

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Louisa Dresser, "Portraits in Boston, 1630-1720", Archives of American Art (July-October 1966), vol. 6, no. 3-4, pp. 1-34, ill. p. 28
• Lawrence Shaw Mayo, The Winthrop Family in America, Massachusetts Historical Society (Boston, MA, 1948), pp. 97-111, ill. opp. p. 98
• Harvard University, Winthrop Family Portraits at Harvard: John Winthrop House, Harvard University, brochure (Cambridge, MA, April 1956), pp. 5-6
• Wayne Craven, Colonial American Portraiture, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, England, 1986), pp. 117-118, fig. 46
• 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. 131
• 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. 186
• Allegra di Bonaventura, For Adam's Sake: A Family Saga in New England, Liverright (New York, 2013), n.p., p. 2
• 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. 506-07, cat. 470, ill.
• Ken Bresler, The Witch Trial Trail of Boston and the Harvard Witch Walk: The People and Places of Boston and Harvard Connected with the Salem Witch Trials (2023), p. 19, repr.

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