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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H68
People
Gilbert Stuart Newton, British (Halifax, Nova Scotia 1794 - 1835 London, England)
Joseph Stevens Buckminster (1784 - 1812)
Title
Joseph Stevens Buckminster (1784-1812), after Gilbert Stuart
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1815-1817
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/305007

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on wood panel
Dimensions
84.2 x 67.3 cm (33 1/8 x 26 1/2 in.)
framed: 97.8 x 81.3 x 7.6 cm (38 1/2 x 32 x 3 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: on verso [not in artist's hand]: Original portrait of the Rev. Joseph S. Buckminster of Boston--Painted by Stuart for Arnold Welles. Presented June 16, 1827, by Hon. John Welles of Boston, brother of Arnold Welles.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Arnold Welles, Boston. MA; to his brother, Hon. John Welles, Boston, MA; his gift to Harvard College, 1827.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of John Welles to Harvard College, 1827
Object Number
H68
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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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. 10
  • Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 32
  • 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. 60, cat. 321
  • 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. 354-55, cat. 319, ill.

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