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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H660
People
Gilbert Stuart, American (North Kingstown, RI 1755 - 1828 Boston, MA)
Joseph Coolidge (1747-1820)
Title
Joseph Coolidge (1747-1820)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1813
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, Massachusetts, Boston
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/305022

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on wood panel
Dimensions
71.2 x 57.3 cm (28 1/16 x 22 9/16 in.)
framed: 90.2 x 76.8 x 9.2 cm (35 1/2 x 30 1/4 x 3 5/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Commissioned by Joseph Coolidge (1747-1820), Boston, MA, 1813; bequest to Joseph Coolidge (1798-1879); descent in family; bequest to Joseph Randolph Coolidge IV, Cushing, Maine; his bequest to Harvard University, 1981.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Bequest of Joseph Randolph Coolidge, 1981
Object Number
H660
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Lawrence Park, Gilbert Stuart: An lllustrated Descriptive List of His Works, vol. I - IV, W. E. Rudge (New York, NY, 1926), vol. I, p. 237, no. 186
  • 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. 92, cat. 487
  • 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. 456-57, cat. 422, ill.

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