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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

Verification Level

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