John Barnard Swett Jackson (1806-1879)

Identification and Creation

Object Number: H709
People: Edward L. Custer, American (Basel, Switzerland 1837 - 1881 Boston, MA)
John Barnard Swett Jackson (1806 - 1879)
Title: John Barnard Swett Jackson (1806-1879)
Classification: Paintings
Work Type: painting
Date: 1879
Places: Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/305153

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

75 x 61.9 cm (29 1/2 x 24 3/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: c.l.: E L Custer/1879

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Descent through the Jackson family to Esther Jackson.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Esther Jackson and another Jackson granddaughter to the Harvard Medical School, 1949
Object Number: H709
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. 24
Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, ed., American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008), p. 87-88, cat. 55, ill. p. 88

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