H136: Ward Nicholas Boylston (1749-1828)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H136

People

Gilbert Stuart, American (North Kingstown, RI 1755 - 1828 Boston, MA)
Ward Nicholas Boylston (1749 - 1828)

Title

Ward Nicholas Boylston (1749-1828)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

1825

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States, Massachusetts

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/310819

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

91.7 x 71.5 cm (36 1/8 x 28 1/8 in.)
framed: 114.3 x 94 x 12.7 cm (45 x 37 x 5 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Ward Nicholas Boylston, 1825; gift to the Boylston Medical Library (Society), 1825; gift to Harvard University, 1936.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Boylston Medical Society, 1936

Object Number

H136

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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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. 9
• Lawrence Park, Gilbert Stuart: An lllustrated Descriptive List of His Works, vol. I - IV, W. E. Rudge (New York, NY, 1926), vol. I, p. 174, no. 108
• Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 26, ill. p. 27
• 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. 47, cat. 253
• Andrew Oliver, ed., The Journals of Samuel Curwen, Loyalist, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1971)
• Andrew Oliver, Ann Millspaugh Huff, and Edward W. Hanson, Portraits in the Massachusetts Historical Society: An Illustrated Catalogue with Descriptive Matter, Massachusetts Historical Society (Boston, MA, 1988), p. 19, ill. p. 20
• 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. 23, 462-63, cat. 430, ill.

Exhibition History

• The American Spirit in Portraiture, 1675 - 1900, Fogg Art Museum, 01/19/1951 - 02/24/1951

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