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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H23
People
Chester Harding, American (Conway, MA 1792 - 1866 Boston, MA)
Tyler Bigelow (1778 - 1865)
Title
Tyler Bigelow (1778-1865)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1830s
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/304800

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
76.9 x 63.5 cm (30 1/4 x 25 in.)
framed: 101.6 x 91.4 x 9.2 cm (40 x 36 x 3 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • plaque: TYLER BIGELOW, 1778-1865/ Attorney at Law, founder of Bigelow Scholarships/ Style of Chester Harding

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Tyler Bigelow; to his son George Tyler Bigelow; to his wife, Mrs. George Tyler Bigelow, 1878; her gift to Harvard College, 1878.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Mrs. George Tyler Bigelow to Harvard College, 1878
Object Number
H23
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • William Garrott Brown, A List of Portraits in the Various Buildings of Harvard University, Harvard University Library (Cambridge, MA, 1898), p. 8
  • "Paintings in Randall Hall", Harvard Alumni Bulletin (January 24, 1912), vol. 14, p. 259, p. 259
  • "The Fine Arts. Harvard Portraits:, Boston Evening Transcript (January 13, 1912), p. 3, p. 3
  • Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 20
  • Leah Lipton, A Truthful Likeness: Chester Harding and His Portraits, exh. cat., National Portrait Gallery (Washington, DC, 1985), p. 137, 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. 242, cat. 192, ill.

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