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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H130
People
Attributed to J. Whitfield, American (active 1828-1829)
John Thornton Kirkland (1770 - 1840)
Title
John Thornton Kirkland (1770-1840)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1828-1830
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/310908

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on wood panel
Dimensions
35.7 x 29.2 cm (14 1/16 x 11 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • label: Philip Mould Ltd/ London/ 20 Dove St

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Collection of Edward J. Young, Cambridge, MA; his gift to Harvard University for the Harvard Divinity School, 1865.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Edward J. Young to Harvard University for the Harvard Divinity School, 1865
Object Number
H130
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Cuthbert Lee, Early American Portrait Painters: The Fourteen Principal Earliest Native-born Painters, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT, 1929), p. 38
  • Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 84
  • 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. 522-23, cat. 490, ill.

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