H354: Ebenezer Pemberton (1704/05-1777), after Benjamin Blyth

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H354

People

Unidentified Artist
Ebenezer Pemberton (1704/05 - 1777)
Copy after Benjamin Blyth, American (Salem, MA 1746 - after 1787)

Title

Ebenezer Pemberton (1704/05-1777), after Benjamin Blyth

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

c. 1928

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/304747

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

58.7 x 46.4 cm (23 1/8 x 18 1/4 in.)
framed: 72.7 x 60 x 5.4 cm (28 5/8 x 23 5/8 x 2 1/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• label: Gilded Wood Plaque, Wood: EBENEZER PEMBERTON, A.M., D.D/A.B. HARVARD 1721-A.M. HARVARD 1724/A FOUNDER OF PRINCETON COLLEGE IN 1745. . .

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Mrs. Henry Fairfield Osborn, New York, NY; her commission and gift, 1928.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Mrs. Henry Fairfield Osborn, 1928

Object Number

H354

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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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. 109
• 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. 308, cat. 1644

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