Ezekiel Hersey (1709-1770) | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: H383
People: Attributed to Benjamin Blyth, American (Salem, MA 1746 - after 1787)
Ezekiel Hersey (1709 - 1770)
Title: Ezekiel Hersey (1709-1770)
Classification: Paintings
Work Type: painting
Date: 1760-1762
Places: Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/304748

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 67.3 x 52.7 cm (26 1/2 x 20 3/4 in.)
framed: 82.6 x 68.3 x 5.7 cm (32 1/2 x 26 7/8 x 2 1/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Sarah Langlee Hersey, wife of the sitter, 1770; her bequest to the Derby Academy, 1790; their gift to Mrs. Jonathan Russell (Rachel Hersey), great-niece of the sitter; by family descent to her granddaughter Mary Rivers; by descent to Dr. Harold C. Ernst; his bequest to the Harvard Medical School, 1927.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard University Portrait Collection, Bequest of Dr. Harold C. Ernst to the Harvard Medical School, 1927
Object Number: H383
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. 70, 72
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. 195, cat. 1022
Louise Todd Ambler, Early Science at Harvard: Innovators and Their Instruments, 1765 - 1865, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, December 1969-January 1970), p. 4
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. 97, cat. 48, ill.
Bettina Norton, "Blyth Spirits: More Benjamin Blyth Portraits in Oils", The Magazine Antiques (May-June 2020), pp. 54-60, p. 55, repr. p. 54

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