H673: William James (1771-1832)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H673

People

Ezra Ames, American (Framingham, MA 1768 - 1836 Albany, NY)
William James (1771 - 1832)

Title

William James (1771-1832)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

1822

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/305068

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on wood panel

Dimensions

91 x 70 cm (35 13/16 x 27 9/16 in.)
framed: 113 x 93.4 x 8.9 cm (44 1/2 x 36 3/4 x 3 1/2 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• (not assigned): on letter held in James's hand: Wm. James Esq./Albany/...ber 1822

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Collection of William James (1842-1910); probably by descent to John S.R. James, Jr.; bequeathed to his wife Jessie Holladay James; her gift to Harvard University, 1983.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Mrs. John S. R. James, Jr. to the University, 1983

Object Number

H673

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Commentary

The James family included several generations of men named William and Henry. This William James is usually referred to as William James of Albany.

Publication History

• R.W.B. Lewis, The Jameses: A Family Narrative, Farrar, Straus & Giroux (New York, NY, 1991), p. 644, ill. opp. p. 74
• 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. 70-71, cat. 24, ill.

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