H201: Persis Garland Smith (1807-1891)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H201

People

Henry Peters Gray, American (New York, New York 1819 - 1877 New York, New York)
Persis Garland Smith (1807-1891)

Title

Persis Garland Smith (1807-1891)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

1855

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/311448

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

76.2 x 63.5 cm (30 x 25 in.)
framed: 99.4 x 87 x 12.7 cm (39 1/8 x 34 1/4 x 5 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: l.r.: Gray St. Louis 1855

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

H201

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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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. 126
• 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. 177, ill.

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