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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H117
People
Albert Gallatin Hoit (Sandwich, NH 1809 - 1856 West Roxbury, MA)
Clarke Gayton Pickman (1791 - 1860)
Title
Clarke Gayton Pickman (1791-1860)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1852
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/311061

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
76.3 x 63.6 cm (30 1/16 x 25 1/16 in.)
framed: 104.1 x 91.4 x 8.9 cm (41 x 36 x 3 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: verso: Painted by A.G. Hoyt, 1852
  • inscription: in red [not in artist's hand]: CLARKE GAYTON PICKMAN (1791-1860)/ AB 1811/Benefactor of College Library/Albert G. Hoyt/1852

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Gift of George G. Kennedy to Harvard College, 1889.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of George G. Kennedy to Harvard College, 1889
Object Number
H117
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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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. 34
  • Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 110, ill.
  • 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), p. 265, cat. 213, ill.

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