H117: Clarke Gayton Pickman (1791-1860)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H117

People

Albert Gallatin Hoit (Sandwich, NH 1809 - 1856 West Roxbury, MA)
Clarke Gayton Pickman (1791 - 1860)

Title

Clarke Gayton Pickman (1791-1860)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

1852

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/311061

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

76.3 x 63.6 cm (30 1/16 x 25 1/16 in.)
framed: 104.1 x 91.4 x 8.9 cm (41 x 36 x 3 1/2 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: verso: Painted by A.G. Hoyt, 1852
• inscription: in red [not in artist's hand]: CLARKE GAYTON PICKMAN (1791-1860)/ AB 1811/Benefactor of College Library/Albert G. Hoyt/1852

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Gift of George G. Kennedy to Harvard College, 1889.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of George G. Kennedy to Harvard College, 1889

Object Number

H117

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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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. 34
• Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 110, ill.
• 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. 265, cat. 213, ill.

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