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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H444
People
John Greenwood, American (Boston, MA 1727 - 1792 Margate, England)
Mrs. Henry (Katherine Willard) Gibbs (died 1769)
Title
Katherine Willard Gibbs (Mrs. Henry Gibbs) (d.1769)
Other Titles
Former Title: Catherine (Willard) Gibbs
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1747
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/299911

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
76.3 x 64 cm (30 1/16 x 25 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.l.: J. G. pinx 1747
  • label: on verso: Addison Gallery, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Gift of Henry Shattuck to Harvard University, 1936

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Henry Shattuck to Harvard University, 1936
Object Number
H444
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. 61
  • Historical Records Survey, Division of Professional and Service Projects, Works Progress Administration, American Portraits, 1620-1825, found in Massachusetts, Volumes 1 and 2, Historical Records Survey (Boston, MA, 1939), p. 165, cat. 866
  • Alan Burroughs, John Greenwood in America, 1745-1752: A Monograph With Notes and a Check List, Addison Gallery of American Art (Andover, MA, 1943), pp. 14, 17, 65, 80, fig. 2
  • Anne H. Vogel, American Colonial Portraits from the Fogg Art Museum and Harvard University, exh. cat., Milwaukee Art Museum (Mikwaukee, WI, 1983), ill. n.p.
  • John C. Eastberg and Eric Vogel, Layton's Legacy: A Historic American Art Collection, 1888-2013, University of Wisconsin, Madison (Milwaukee and Madison, 2013), p. 384, ill. p. 387
  • 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. 233-34, cat. 184, ill.

Exhibition History

  • The American Spirit in Portraiture, 1675 - 1900, Fogg Art Museum, 01/19/1951 - 02/24/1951
  • American Colonial Portraits from the Fogg Art Museum and Harvard University, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, 06/01/1983 - 06/30/1983

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