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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H50
People
William Page, American (Albany, NY 1811 - 1885 Staten Island, NY)
Josiah Quincy (1772 - 1864)
Title
Josiah Quincy (1772-1864)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1843
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/304893

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
118.3 x 93.1 cm (46 9/16 x 36 5/8 in.)
framed: 158 x 125 x 9.5 cm (62 3/16 x 49 3/16 x 3 3/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Given by Josiah Quincy, Jr., 1847.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Josiah Quincy Jr. to Harvard College, 1847
Object Number
H50
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • "Boston Notions. Number V", Brother Jonathan (December 2, 1843), vol. 6, p. 385
  • Josiah Page Quincy to Hon. S.A. Eliot, 28 January 1847 (1847)., p. 332
  • Josiah Quincy Jr. to S.A. Eliot, [1847] (1847), p. 209
  • Edmund Quincy, Life of Josiah Quincy of Massachusetts, Ticknor and Fields (Boston, 1867), p. 551
  • Susan Nichols Carter, "The President of the National Academy", Appleton's Journal (December 2, 1871), vol. 6, p. 618
  • William Howe Downes, "Boston Painters and Paintings III", Atlantic Monthly (September 1888), vol. 62, p. 384
  • James Grant Wilson and John Fiske, Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography, D. Appleton & Co. (New York, 1888), vol. 4p. 626
  • William Garrott Brown, A List of Portraits in the Various Buildings of Harvard University, Harvard University Library (Cambridge, MA, 1898), p. 35
  • Charles William Eliot, Harvard Memories, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1923), p. [47], ill.
  • Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 113
  • Alan Burroughs, Limners and Likenesses: Three Centuries of American Painting, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 164
  • Joshua C. Taylor, William Page: The American Titian, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL, 1957), pp. 65-67, 271, no. 92, ill. fig. 18
  • William Howe Downes, "William Page", Dictionary of American Biography (1977), vol. 7, p. 145
  • 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. 377-78, cat. 342, ill.

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