H80: Francis William Pitt Greenwood (1797-1843)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H80

People

Joshua Henshaw Hayward, American (Boston, MA 1797 - 1856 Boston, MA)
Francis William Pitt Greenwood (1797 - 1843)

Title

Francis William Pitt Greenwood (1797-1843)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

c. 1840

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/304960

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

77 x 55 cm (30 5/16 x 21 5/8 in.)
framed: 99.1 x 87 x 12.7 cm (39 x 34 1/4 x 5 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

George Hayward, Boston, MA, the artist's brother; his gift to Harvard College, 1856.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of George Hayward, brother of the artist, to Harvard College, 1856

Object Number

H80

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. 20
• Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 66
• 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. 252-53, cat. 202, ill.

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