HNA98: Thomas Hollis V (1720-1774)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

HNA98

People

Richard Wilson, British (Penegoes, Wales 1714 - 1782 Colommenoy, Wales)
Thomas Hollis V (1720 - 1774)

Title

Thomas Hollis V (1720-1774)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

1752

Places

Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom

Culture

British

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/305238

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

56.5 x 44.4 cm (22 1/4 x 17 1/2 in.)
framed: 72.4 x 61 x 6.4 cm (28 1/2 x 24 x 2 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Edgar Norton Disney, England.
Descent through family.
Sold by Disney's executors at Sothebys, 1950.
Purchased by Mrs. Donald F. Hyde.
Her gift to the Harvard College Library, 1950.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Mrs. Donald F. Hyde to the Harvard College Library

Object Number

HNA98

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• David Wilson, An Idle Speculation by Samuel Palmer: William Blake's involvement in Cipriani's portrait of John Milton, British Art Journal (Spring/Summer 2005), vol. VI, no. 1, pp. 31-36, pp. 31-36, fig. 3
• "A Portrait of Thomas Hollis by Richard Wilson", Harvard Library Bulletin, Harvard University Library (Cambridge, MA, 1951), vol. V, no. 2, pp. 242-246.
• Linda Ayres, Harvard Divided, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1976), pp. 152-153, fig. 87
• David Wilson, "A Bust of Thomas Hollis by Joseph Wilton RA", British Art Journal (Winter 2004), vol. V No. 3, illus. in color, p. 8, fig. 15

Exhibition History

• Harvard Divided, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/03/1976 - 10/10/1976

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