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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1969.73
People
William Jennys, American (1774-1859)
Previously attributed to Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, French (Dijon, France 1770 - 1852 Dijon, France)
Title
William Sawyer (1787-1811)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1807-1809
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/311060

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
76.6 x 64.4 cm (30 3/16 x 25 3/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Frederick J. White, Brookline, MA; purchased by Henry Shattuck, Boston, 1936, as by Jennys and Charles-Balthazar-Julien-Févret de Saint-Mémin (1770-1852); Harvard University Portrait Collection (1936-69); transferred to the Fogg Art Museum, 1969.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Henry Shattuck, 1936
Accession Year
1969
Object Number
1969.73
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • 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. 362, cat. 1921
  • William Lawson Warren, "A Checklist of Jennys Portraits", Connecticut Historical Society Bulletin (1956), vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 97-128, p. 60
  • 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. 387
  • 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. 304, cat. 264, 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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