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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H135
People
Charles Osgood, American (Salem, MA 1809 - 1890 Salem, MA)
Henry Ware Sr. (1764 - 1845)
Title
Henry Ware Sr. (1764-1845)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1835
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/310792

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
91.9 x 71.7 cm (36 3/16 x 28 1/4 in.)
framed: 121.9 x 101.6 x 9.5 cm (48 x 40 x 3 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • plaque: Henry Ware Sr. S.T.D./1764-1845/Charles Osgood

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Commissioned by Stephen C. Phillips, 1835; bequest to his son, Stephen H. Phillips; his gift to Harvard College, 1883.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Stephen H. Phillips of Salem to Harvard College, 1883
Object Number
H135
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
Permissions

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Publication History

  • Harvard Corporation Records (September 26, 1883)
  • William Garrott Brown, A List of Portraits in the Various Buildings of Harvard University, Harvard University Library (Cambridge, MA, 1898), p. 42
  • Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), pp. 141-142
  • 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. 367-68, cat. 332, ill.

Verification Level

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