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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H562
People
Samuel Stillman Osgood, American (New Haven, CT 1808 - 1885 California)
Epes Sargent, American (1813 - 1880)
Title
Epes Sargent (1813-1880)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1831
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/304946

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
68.8 x 55.9 cm (27 1/16 x 22 in.)
framed: 88.9 x 77.5 x 4.1 cm (35 x 30 1/2 x 1 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • plaque: bronze plaque: "EPES SARGENT 1813-1880/ Poet and Journalist/ By Samuel Osgood"

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Bequest of Miss Georgiana Sargent to Harvard College, 1942.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Bequest of Miss Georgiana Sargent to Harvard College, 1942
Object Number
H562
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Emma Worcester Sargent and Charles Sprague Sargent, Epes Sargent of Gloucester and His Descendents, Houghton Mifflin Company (Boston, MA, 1923), p. 34
  • Ellen B. Ballou, "The Artist and the Admiral", The New-England Galaxy, Old Sturbridge Village (Sturbridge, MA, Winter 1963), vol. 5, pp. 21, 28, ill.
  • Alan Fraser Houston, "Worth Their Weight in Gold: The Portraits of John Augustus Sutter by Samuel Stillman Osgood, Gold Rush Artist", The Pioneer (December 2000), vol. 23, p. 25
  • 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. 370-71, cat. 335, ill.

Verification Level

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