H141: John Barnard Swett Jackson (1806-1879)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H141

People

William Morris Hunt, American (Brattleboro, VT 1824 - 1879 Isles of Shoals, NH)
John Barnard Swett Jackson (1806 - 1879)

Title

John Barnard Swett Jackson (1806-1879)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

1877-1878

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/310947

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

91.7 x 74 cm (36 1/8 x 29 1/8 in.)
framed: 125.7 x 108 x 19.1 cm (49 1/2 x 42 1/2 x 7 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Gift of the physicians of Boston, 1878.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of physicians of Boston, 1878

Object Number

H141

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Exhibition of the Works of William Morris Hunt, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1880), cat. 136
• Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 80
• 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), p. 278, cat. 225, ill.

Exhibition History

• Exhibition of the Works of William Morris Hunt, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 12/20/1879 - 01/31/1880

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