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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.127
People
Cosmo Alexander, British (Aberdeen, Scotland 1724 - 1772 Edinburgh, Scotland)
Title
The Honorable John Ross
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1766
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/311265

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
130.5 x 103.8 cm (51 3/8 x 40 7/8 in.)
framed: 149.9 x 49 x 6.4 cm (59 x 19 5/16 x 2 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: on side of desk: [monogram] CAlex' pingebat A D 1766

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Captain Gurney, husband of Catherine Ross (daughter of John Ross); General Meredith Read; Harmon Pumpelly Read, Albany, NY; Mrs. Maxwell Case; Grenville L. Winthrop; his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.127
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • S.S. Conant, "The First Century of the Republic", Harper's Monthly Magazine (December 1876), vol. 52, no. 307, p. 699, p. 699
  • John Thomas Scharf and Thompson Westcott, History of Philadelphia, 1609-1884, L. H. Everts & Co. II (Philadelphia, PA, 1884), p. 1034
  • G.L.M. Goodfellow, "Cosmo Alexander in America", The Art Quarterly (Autumn 1965), vol. XXVI, no. 3, pp. 309-22, pp. 309-310, ill. p. 311
  • Dorothy W. Gillerman, ed., Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1969), p. 239
  • Pam McClellan Geddy, "Cosmo Alexander's Travels and Patrons in America", The Magazine Antiques (November 1977), vol. 112, pp. 972-78, pp. 973-74
  • Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), p. 97, cat. 11, ill. p. 138
  • 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. 42-43, cat. 1, ill.

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