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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1939.93
People
George Frederic Watts, British (London, England 1817 - 1904 Limnerslease, Compton, England)
Title
Portrait of a Man
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Portrait of a Man, possibly Alfred de Stern
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1881
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230643

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
66.2 x 53.3 cm (26 1/16 x 21 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.l.: G. F. Watts 1881
  • stamp: back of canvas, black ink, stamped: Prepared by / Winsor & Newton / 38, Rathbone Place, / London
  • label: upper member of stretcher, paper and black ink, printed and handwritten: [printed:] B. H. No. [handwritten:] 3381 / G. F. Watts

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Arnold Seligmann, London], sold; to Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York, 1938, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1939

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Grenville L. Winthrop, Class of 1886
Accession Year
1939
Object Number
1939.93
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • H. W. Shrewsbury, The Visions of an Artist (London, England, 1918), p. 18
  • William Rothenstein, Men and memories; recollections of William Rothenstein, Coward McCann (New York, NY, 1931 - 1940), p. 33
  • Charles Johnson, English Painting from the Seventh Century to the Present Day, Dial Press (New York, NY, 1932), p. 237
  • Paintings and Drawings of the Pre-Raphaelites and their Circle, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1946), no. 99, p. 108
  • Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), p. 133, repr. as no. 81
  • Francesca Mitchell, "Technical Study of the Paintings by George Frederic Watts in the Collection at the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, July 1990), Unpublished, pp. 1-22 passim

Exhibition History

  • Paintings and Drawings of the Pre-Raphaelites and their Circle, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/08/1946 - 06/01/1946
  • Pre-Raphaelite and Early French Symbolist Art in the Fogg Collections, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 01/16/1973 - 02/25/1973
  • For Students of Art and Lovers of Beauty: Highlights from the Collection of Grenville L. Winthrop, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/16/2004

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