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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H57
People
Gilbert Stuart Newton, British (Halifax, Nova Scotia 1794 - 1835 London, England)
Thomas Palmer (1743-1820)
Title
Thomas Palmer (1743-1820)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1818-1820
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/304851

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
90.8 x 71.1 cm (35 3/4 x 28 in.)
framed: 121.9 x 101.6 x 10.2 cm (48 x 40 x 4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • plaque: THOMAS PALMER, 1743-1820/ Classical Scholar and Benefactor of the Library/ By Gilbert Stuart Newton

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Bequest of the sitter to Harvard University, 1820.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Bequest of Thomas Palmer to Harvard University, 1820
Object Number
H57
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
Permissions

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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. 33
  • Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), pp. 104-105
  • 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. 298, cat. 1587
  • John Langdon Sibley, Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1970), vol. 15, p. 91
  • Dorinda Evans, Benjamin West and his American Pupils, exh. cat., National Collection of Fine Arts (Washington, D.C, 1980), ill.
  • M. A. Huub Everaert, "Een zoektocht naar de aard van man-vrouw relaties onder Surinaamse slaven" (1999), Universiteit van Amsterdam, p. 92, ill.
  • Dorinda Evans, Gilbert Stuart and the Impact of Manic Depression, Ashgate Publishing (Surrey, England, 2013), pp. xiii, 154, fig. 75
  • 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), pp. 24, 357, cat. 322, ill.

Exhibition History

  • Benjamin West and his American Students, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, 10/16/1980 - 01/04/1981; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 01/30/1981 - 04/19/1981

Verification Level

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