H135: Henry Ware Sr. (1764-1845)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H135

People

Charles Osgood, American (Salem, MA 1809 - 1890 Salem, MA)
Henry Ware Sr. (1764 - 1845)

Title

Henry Ware Sr. (1764-1845)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

1835

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/310792

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

91.9 x 71.7 cm (36 3/16 x 28 1/4 in.)
framed: 121.9 x 101.6 x 9.5 cm (48 x 40 x 3 3/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• plaque: Henry Ware Sr. S.T.D./1764-1845/Charles Osgood

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Commissioned by Stephen C. Phillips, 1835; bequest to his son, Stephen H. Phillips; his gift to Harvard College, 1883.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Stephen H. Phillips of Salem to Harvard College, 1883

Object Number

H135

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Harvard Corporation Records (September 26, 1883)
• William Garrott Brown, A List of Portraits in the Various Buildings of Harvard University, Harvard University Library (Cambridge, MA, 1898), p. 42
• Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), pp. 141-142
• 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. 367-68, cat. 332, ill.

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