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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H83
People
Giovanni Battista Cipriani, Italian (Florence, Italy 1727 - 1785 London, England)
Thomas Hollis III (1659 - 1731)
Copy of Unidentified Artist
Title
Thomas Hollis (1659-1731), copy after an original dated 1723
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1764
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/304938

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
75.9 x 63.5 cm (29 7/8 x 25 in.)
framed: 92.7 x 79.7 x 6.4 cm (36 1/2 x 31 3/8 x 2 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: (l.r.): Thomas Hollis/ OF London Merchant/MDCCXXIII

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Gift of Thomas Hollis V to Harvard College, 1765. [Thomas Hollis III was the great-uncle of Thomas Hollis V.]

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Thomas Hollis V to Harvard College, 1765
Object Number
H83
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
This portrait by Cipriani was used by John Singleton Copley to paint his portrait of Thomas Hollis in 1765-66. See H25.

Publication History

  • Benjamin Peirce, A History of Harvard University, From its Foundation, in the Year 1636 to the Period of the American Revolution, Brown, Shattuck and Company (Cambridge, MA, 1833), p. 157
  • "Thomas Hollis", The Harvard Graduates' Magazine, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, March 1895), p. 342, ill.
  • William Garrott Brown, A List of Portraits in the Various Buildings of Harvard University, Harvard University Library (Cambridge, MA, 1898), p. 23
  • Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 75
  • 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. 1
  • Sandra Grindlay, "Harvard's Portraits: An American Treasure", Harvard University Art Museums Review (Fall 1992), vol. II, no. 1, pp. 6-7, p. 6
  • 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. 135-136, fig. 23
  • Ethan Lasser, ed., The Philosophy Chamber: Art and Science in Harvard’s Teaching Cabinet, 1766–1820, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2017), p. 181, Fig. 11 on p. 183 in Aleksandr Bierig's "Transposition"

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