H131: Nathan Parker (1782-1833)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H131

People

Samuel Finley Breese Morse, American (Charlestown, MA 1791 - 1872 New York, NY)
Nathan Parker (1782 - 1833)

Title

Nathan Parker (1782-1833)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

1817

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/310909

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on millboard

Dimensions

30.3 x 25.4 cm (11 15/16 x 10 in.)
framed: 39 x 33.5 x 5.7 cm (15 3/8 x 13 3/16 x 2 1/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: verso, u.r.: Painted by Morse/January 1817
• inscription: back: Thomas Lee/[covered by label]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Commissioned by Nathan Parker, Portsmouth, NH, 1817; given to his son, Francis Edwards Parker, at his death, 1833; gift of the executors of his estate to Harvard University, 1867.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of the executors of the Estate of F.E. Parker to the University, 1867

Object Number

H131

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. 33
• Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 105
• 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. 300, cat. 1601
• Oliver W. Larkin, Samuel F. B. Morse and American Democratic Art, Little, Brown & Company (Boston, 1954), pp. 43-44
• William Kloss, Samuel F. B. Morse, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, NY, 1988), pp. 44-45, ill. p. 41
• Paul J. Staiti, Samuel F. B. Morse, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, England, and New York, NY, 1989), pp. 42-43, fig. 27, p. 254, no. 165
• 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. 349-50, cat. 314, ill.

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