James Smith (1804-1877) | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: H200
People: Henry Peters Gray, American (New York, New York 1819 - 1877 New York, New York)
James Smith (1804 - 1877)
Title: James Smith (1804-1877)
Classification: Paintings
Work Type: painting
Date: 1855
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/311447

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 68.6 x 56.5 cm (27 x 22 1/4 in.)
framed: 90.2 x 78.7 x 1.9 cm (35 1/2 x 31 x 3/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Probably commissioned by the sitter, 1855; descent through the family to the sitter's foster son, George Smith; his gift to Harvard University, 1902.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard University Portrait Collection, Bequest of George Smith to Harvard University, 1902
Object Number: H200
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 125
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. 227-28, cat. 176, ill.

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