6.1955: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

6.1955

People

Washington Allston, American (Georgetown, SC 1779 - 1843 Cambridge, MA)

Title

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

1806

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/311093

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

75.2 x 63.3 cm (29 5/8 x 24 15/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

To the artist's wife Martha Dana Allston at his death, 1843; to the Washington Allston Trust, 1862.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Loan from The Washington Allston Trust

Object Number

6.1955

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

This is an unfinished portrait of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Washington Allston. There is also a finished portrait of Coleridge in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Publication History

• Moses Foster Sweetser, Allston (Boston, MA, 1879), p. 188
• Jared B. Flagg, The Life and Letters of Washington Allston, Charles Scribner's Sons (New York, NY, 1892), p. 105
• Kathleen Coburn, "Notes on Washington Allston, from the Unpublished Notebooks of S. T. Coleridge", Gazette des Beaux-Arts (April 1944), vol. XXV, no. 926, pp. 249-252, fig. 1, ill. p. 249
• Edgar P. Richardson, American Romantic Painting, ed. Robert Freund, E. Weyhe (New York, NY, 1944), p. 23, no. 15, ill.
• Edgar P. Richardson, Washington Allston: A Study of the Romantic Artist in America, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL, 1948), pp. 77-78, 190, no. 40, pl. XII
• Thomas W. Leavitt, "The Disposition of the Washington Allston Trust", The Art Quarterly, Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Winter 1956), vol. XIX, no. 4, pp. 415-417, pp. 415-416
• Charles Montgomery and Patricia E. Kane, American Art: 1750-1800, Towards Independence, exh. cat., Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, CT, 1976), pp. 126-127, 288, cat. 68, ill.
• William H. Gerdts and Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., "A Man of Genius": The Art of Washington Allston (1779-1843), exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1979), p. 180, cat. 16, ill.
• Carol Troyen, The Boston Tradition: American Paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, exh. cat., American Federation of Arts (New York, NY, 1980), p. 82
• Richard Walker, Regency Portraits: Volume I: Text, National Portrait Gallery (London, 1985), pp. 119-120
• Jonathan Wordsworth, Michael C. Jaye, and Robert Woof, William Wordsworth and the Age of English Romanticism, exh. cat., Rutgers University Press and The Wordsworth Trust (New Brunswick and London, 1987), p. 35, fig. 33; p. 204-5, cat. 45
• Nathalia Wright, ed., The Correspondence of Washington Allston, The University Press of Kentucky (Lexington, KY, 1993), p. 44
• Morton D. Paley, Portraits of Coleridge, The Clarendon Press (Oxford, England, 1999), p. 41, p. 136
• Jane Turner, The Encyclopedia of American Art before 1914, Macmillan Publishers Limited (London, England, 2000), p. 9
• Gurion Taussig, Coleridge and the Idea of Friendship, 1789-1804, University of Delaware Press (Newark, DE, 2002), pp. 316-317, ill. p. 317
• Dr. James Engell, Poetry For Young People: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sterling Publishing Company (New York, NY, 2003), repr. on p. 4 [detail]
• Morton D. Paley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the Fine Arts, Oxford University Press (UK) (Oxford, UK, 2008), pp. 44-45, fig. 8
• 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. 56, cat. 13, ill.
• Katharina Lau, Gentlemen und Dandys: Studien zur Darstellung eines männlichen Ideals im englischen Porträt des frühen 19. Jahrhunderts, LIT Verlag (Berlin, 2018), pp. 293-294, 296, repr. p. 294 as Abb. 59

Exhibition History

• Four Boston Masters, Jewett Arts Center, Wellesley, 04/10/1959 - 05/11/1959; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 05/19/1959 - 06/26/1959
• American Art: 1750-1800 Towards Independence, Yale University Art Gallery, 04/03/1976 - 05/23/1976; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 07/15/1976 - 09/26/1976
• "A Man of Genius": The Art of Washington Allston (1779-1843), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 12/12/1979 - 02/03/1980; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 02/28/1980 - 04/27/1980

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