H659: Margaret Morton Quincy Greene (Mrs. Benjamin Daniel Greene) (1806-1882)
Paintings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- H659
- People
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Chester Harding, American (Conway, MA 1792 - 1866 Boston, MA)
Margaret Morton Quincy (1806 - 1882)
- Title
- Margaret Morton Quincy Greene (Mrs. Benjamin Daniel Greene) (1806-1882)
- Classification
- Paintings
- Work Type
- painting
- Date
- 1826
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/302053
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
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76.5 x 64.1 cm (30 1/8 x 25 1/4 in.)
framed: 95.3 x 82.6 x 9.5 cm (37 1/2 x 32 1/2 x 3 3/4 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- plaque: Margaret Morton Quincy/ 1806-1882/ Chester Harding
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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Bequest of Josiah Quincy to his daughter, Fanny (Francis Huntington) Quincy (1870-1933), 1864; to her husband, Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe(1864-1960); to his son, Mark De Wolfe Howe (1906-1967), 1960; Mr. & Mrs. Faneuil Adams (Mary), Cambridge, MA, 1967; their gift to Harvard University, 1981.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Faneuil Adams, 1981
- Object Number
- H659
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe, ed., The Articulate Sisters: Passages from Journals and Letters of the Daughters of President Josiah Quincy of Harvard University, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1946), ill. opp. p. 82
- Leah Lipton, A Truthful Likeness: Chester Harding and His Portraits, exh. cat., National Portrait Gallery (Washington, DC, 1985), p. 176, ill.
- 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. 241, cat. 191, ill.
Verification Level
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