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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H42
People
Eastman Johnson, American (Lovell, ME 1824 - 1906 New York, NY)
Wilder Dwight (1833 - 1862)
Title
Wilder Dwight (1833-1862)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1863
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/304801

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
59.7 x 49.5 cm (23 1/2 x 19 1/2 in.)
framed: 91.4 x 81.3 x 15.2 cm (36 x 32 x 6 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: Inscribed on verso: Painted by Eastman Johnson in 1863

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Descent through family of sitter.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of the children of Mrs. William Dwight to Harvard College, 1884
Object Number
H42
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. 16
  • Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), pp. 49-50
  • Teresa A. Carbone and Patricia Hills, Eastman Johnson: Painting America, exh. cat., Brooklyn Museum of Art/Rizzoli International Publications (Brooklyn, NY and New York, NY, 1999), p. 57
  • 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. 306-7, cat. 266, ill.

Verification Level

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