Portrait of a Woman | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1940.90
People: Unidentified Artist
Previously attributed to Attributed to John Smibert, American (Edinburgh, Scotland 1688 - 1751 Boston, MA)
Title: Portrait of a Woman
Other Titles: Former Title: Hanna Waldo Fayerweather (1703-1755)
Classification: Paintings
Work Type: painting
Date: c. 1710-1725
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/311166

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: sight: 127.3 x 102.2 cm (50 1/8 x 40 1/4 in.)
framed: 147.3 x 119.4 x 7 cm (58 x 47 x 2 3/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Miss Elizabeth L. Bond; her gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1940.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Miss Elizabeth L. Bond
Accession Year: 1940
Object Number: 1940.90
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

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. 142, cat. 741
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. 496, cat. 461, ill.

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