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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H715
People
Rembrandt Peale, American (Bucks County, PA 1778 - 1860 Philadelphia, PA)
John Warren (1753 - 1815)
Title
John Warren (1753-1815)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1805-1815
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/305211

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
73.7 x 62.2 cm (29 x 24 1/2 in.)
framed: 98.4 x 88.3 x 11.1 cm (38 3/4 x 34 3/4 x 4 3/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Dr. John Warren, the sitter; to his son, Dr. John Collins Warren, 1815; to his son, Jonathan Mason Warren, 1856; to his son, Dr. John Collins Warren, 1867; to his son, Dr. John Warren, 1927; to his nephew Dr. Richard Warren, 1928; his gift to the Harvard Medical School, 1982.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Dr. Richard Warren to the Harvard Medical School, 1982
Object Number
H715
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Samuel Francis Batchelder, Bits of Harvard History, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1924), ill. p. 158
  • 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. 441, cat. 2275
  • Louise Todd Ambler, Early Science at Harvard: Innovators and Their Instruments, 1765 - 1865, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, December 1969-January 1970), pp. 42-43, 79, cat. 45, ill.
  • Francis Daniels Moore, A Miracle and a Privilege: Recounting a Half Century of Surgical Advance, National Academy Press / Joseph Henry Press (Washington, D.C., 1995), pl. 6
  • 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), p. 391, cat. 354, ill.

Exhibition History

  • Early Science at Harvard, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 12/18/1969 - 02/01/1970
  • A Broad Foundation: Milestones of Medical Education at Harvard, 1783-2003, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, 10/01/2003 - 06/30/2004

Verification Level

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