H528: Edward Everett (1794-1865)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H528

People

Gilbert Stuart, American (North Kingstown, RI 1755 - 1828 Boston, MA)
Edward Everett (1794 - 1865)

Title

Edward Everett (1794-1865)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

c. 1820

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States, Massachusetts, Boston

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/300027

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on wood panel

Dimensions

68.6 x 54.6 cm (27 x 21 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Edmund Dwight; to his son, Edmund Dwight, 1849; purchased by Edward Everett, 1858; to his daughter, Charlotte Brooks Everett (Mrs. Henry Augustus Wise); to her daughter, Katherine Wise (Mrs. Jacob W. Miller); to her son, Henry W. Miller; his gift to the President and Fellows, Harvard College, 1946.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Henry W. Miller, Class of 1897, 1947

Object Number

H528

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

Edward Everett was a Unitarian clergyman, statesman, and a famous American orator. He was not only a graduate of Harvard, but also served as president of the University from 1846 to 1849.

Publication History

• Lawrence Park, Gilbert Stuart: An lllustrated Descriptive List of His Works, vol. I - IV, W. E. Rudge (New York, NY, 1926), vol. I, p. 315-316, no. 285; vol. III, ill. p. 172
• Andrew Oliver, Ann Millspaugh Huff, and Edward W. Hanson, Portraits in the Massachusetts Historical Society: An Illustrated Catalogue with Descriptive Matter, Massachusetts Historical Society (Boston, MA, 1988), p. 39
• Dorinda Evans, Gilbert Stuart and the Impact of Manic Depression, Ashgate Publishing (Surrey, England, 2013), pp. x, 70, fig. 39
• 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. 458-59, cat. 424, ill.
• Robert Mussey Jr. and Clark Pearce, Rather Elegant than Showy: The Classical Furniture of Isaac Vose, Massachusetts Historical Society and David R. Godine (Boston, 2018), p. 141, fig. 155

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