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Identification and Creation

Object Number
HNA98
People
Richard Wilson, British (Penegoes, Wales 1714 - 1782 Colommenoy, Wales)
Thomas Hollis V (1720 - 1774)
Title
Thomas Hollis V (1720-1774)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1752
Places
Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/305238

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
56.5 x 44.4 cm (22 1/4 x 17 1/2 in.)
framed: 72.4 x 61 x 6.4 cm (28 1/2 x 24 x 2 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Edgar Norton Disney, England.
Descent through family.
Sold by Disney's executors at Sothebys, 1950.
Purchased by Mrs. Donald F. Hyde.
Her gift to the Harvard College Library, 1950.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Mrs. Donald F. Hyde to the Harvard College Library
Object Number
HNA98
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • David Wilson, An Idle Speculation by Samuel Palmer: William Blake's involvement in Cipriani's portrait of John Milton, British Art Journal (Spring/Summer 2005), vol. VI, no. 1, pp. 31-36, pp. 31-36, fig. 3
  • "A Portrait of Thomas Hollis by Richard Wilson", Harvard Library Bulletin, Harvard University Library (Cambridge, MA, 1951), vol. V, no. 2, pp. 242-246.
  • Linda Ayres, Harvard Divided, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1976), pp. 152-153, fig. 87
  • David Wilson, "A Bust of Thomas Hollis by Joseph Wilton RA", British Art Journal (Winter 2004), vol. V No. 3, illus. in color, p. 8, fig. 15

Exhibition History

  • Harvard Divided, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/03/1976 - 10/10/1976

Verification Level

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