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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.133
People
Thomas Hicks, American (Newton, PA 1823 - 1890 Trenton Falls, NY)
William H. Seward
Title
William H. Seward (1801-1872)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1860
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/311384

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
66 x 53.3 cm (26 x 21 in.)
framed: 83.8 x 69.9 x 7 cm (33 x 27 1/2 x 2 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: c.r.: T. Hicks/April 1860

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, NY; 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
1943.133
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • "The Fine Arts, Thomas Hicks, N.A. [Obituary]", The Critic: A Weekly Review of Literature and the Arts (October 18, 1890), pp. 14, 355, pp. 14, 355
  • Sculley Bradley, "George Henry Boker and Angie Hicks", American Literature (November 1936), Vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 358-265, p. 265
  • Dorothy W. Gillerman, ed., Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1969), p. 238
  • 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. 259-60, cat. 208, ill.

Exhibition History

  • The American Spirit in Portraiture, 1675 - 1900, Fogg Art Museum, 01/19/1951 - 02/24/1951

Verification Level

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