H130: John Thornton Kirkland (1770-1840)
Paintings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- H130
- People
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Attributed to J. Whitfield, American (active 1828-1829)
John Thornton Kirkland (1770 - 1840)
- Title
- John Thornton Kirkland (1770-1840)
- Classification
- Paintings
- Work Type
- painting
- Date
- c. 1828-1830
- Places
- Creation Place: North America, United States
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/310908
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Oil on wood panel
- Dimensions
- 35.7 x 29.2 cm (14 1/16 x 11 1/2 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- label: Philip Mould Ltd/ London/ 20 Dove St
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Collection of Edward J. Young, Cambridge, MA; his gift to Harvard University for the Harvard Divinity School, 1865.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Edward J. Young to Harvard University for the Harvard Divinity School, 1865
- Object Number
- H130
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Cuthbert Lee, Early American Portrait Painters: The Fourteen Principal Earliest Native-born Painters, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT, 1929), p. 38
- Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 84
- 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. 522-23, cat. 490, ill.
Verification Level
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