1958.178: Captain Thomas Daggett (c. 1683-1730)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1958.178

People

Unidentified Artist

Title

Captain Thomas Daggett (c. 1683-1730)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

c. 1720-1730

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/311059

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

77.2 x 64.8 cm (30 3/8 x 25 1/2 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• label: on verso: "Capt. Thomas Daggett,/ Mariner (1683?-1730?)/ Bought land in Salem, 1709./ Married by Cotton Mather, to/ Lydia Scolly, 1709./ Bought land in Boston, 1719/ He was the great-grandfather of/my great-grandmother, Betty [?] Burrows/ Francis Rogers
• label: on verso: "Captain Thomas Daggett (1683-1730)/ of Salem and Boston. / (Mass. Genealogical Society)/ To the Fogg Art Museum

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Descended through the family from the sitter, Boston, MA; to his daughter, Lydia Daggett Hicks, Boston, MA; to his granddaughter, Lydia Hicks Atwell, Lynn, MA; to his great- granddaughter, Betsy Atwell Burrows, MA; to his great-great-granddaughter, Frances E. Burrows Bowles Stetson (Mrs. Cushing Stetson), Roxbury, MA; to his great-great-great granddaughter, Frances Elizabeth Stetson Rogers, Roxbury, MA; to his great-great-great-great grandson, Francis Stetson Rogers, New York, NY; to Rogers' niece, Mrs. Robert L. Goodale, Cambridge, MA; her gift in his name to Fogg Art Museum, 1958.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Francis Rogers

Accession Year

1958

Object Number

1958.178

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Samuel Bradlee Doggett, A History of the Doggett-Daggett Family, Rockwell and Churchill (Boston, MA, 1894), p. 599, ill. p. 598
• 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. 565, cat. 2686
• Anne H. Vogel, American Colonial Portraits from the Fogg Art Museum and Harvard University, exh. cat., Milwaukee Art Museum (Mikwaukee, WI, 1983), ill. n.p.
• John C. Eastberg and Eric Vogel, Layton's Legacy: A Historic American Art Collection, 1888-2013, University of Wisconsin, Madison (Milwaukee and Madison, 2013), p. 384, ill. p. 386
• 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. 487-88, cat. 451, ill.

Exhibition History

• American Colonial Portraits from the Fogg Art Museum and Harvard University, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, 06/01/1983 - 06/30/1983

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