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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2024.37
People
Anna Eliza Hardy, American (Bangor, ME 1839 - 1934 South Orrington, ME)
After Jeremiah Pearson Hardy, American (Pelham, NH 1800 - 1888 Bangor, ME)
Title
John Neptune
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1886
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/379049

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
83.3 × 63.5 cm (32 13/16 × 25 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: bottom strainer, where canvas is tacked, left, white paint: 47-36 [Peabody number]
  • inscription: verso, upper right of canvas, black paint: John Neptune / Chief of the Tribe of Penobscot Indians / copied by the original portrait / painted by / J. P. Hardy / Bangor / Maine.
  • inscription: verso, top strainer, black ink: 5
  • inscription: verso, top strainer, stamped: S PELEN [illegible text] PAT.
  • inscription: verso, lower left of canvas, black paint: 47-36
  • label: verso, right side of strainer, black oval with orange text: Marston / & Gorham Artists / Materials, / Pictures & / Frames. / 3 State St. / Bangor, / ME.
  • inscription: verso, on canvas, black ink: [illegible]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Commissioned by Harriet Lawrence Hemenway (Mrs. Augustus Hemenway), gift; to the Old South Meeting House, Boston, transferred; to the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology in 1947 through Charles G. Loring, transferred; from Peabody Museum to Harvard Art Museums, 2024

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, gift of the Old South Meeting House, Boston, Massachusetts through Mr. Charles G. Loring, 1947
Accession Year
2024
Object Number
2024.37
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, ed., American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008), pp.127-128, cat. no. 92

Verification Level

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