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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H129
People
Gilbert Stuart Newton, British (Halifax, Nova Scotia 1794 - 1835 London, England)
Stephen Higginson (1770 - 1834)
Title
Stephen Higginson (1770-1834)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1815-1817
Places
Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/310907

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on wood panel
Dimensions
76 x 63.6 cm (29 15/16 x 25 1/16 in.)
framed: 87 x 74.9 cm (34 1/4 x 29 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
The sitter; to his daughter, Martha S. Nichols; her bequest to the Harvard Divinity School, 1890.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Bequest of Mrs. Martha S. Nichols to the Harvard Divinity School, 1893
Object Number
H129
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • William Garrott Brown, A List of Portraits in the Various Buildings of Harvard University, Harvard University Library (Cambridge, MA, 1898), p. 22
  • Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 72
  • 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. 197, cat. 1035
  • 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), p. 355, cat. 320, ill.

Verification Level

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