James Savage (1784-1873) | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: H204
People: David Dalhoff Neal, American (Lowell, MA 1838 - 1915 Munich, Germany)
James Savage Jr. (1832 - 1862)
Title: James Savage (1784-1873)
Classification: Paintings
Work Type: painting
Date: 1886
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/311345

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

107.6 x 77.2 cm (42 3/8 x 30 3/8 in.)
framed: 148.3 x 117.2 x 12.7 cm (58 3/8 x 46 1/8 x 5 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: u.r.: DAVID NEAL. / 1886

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Probably commissioned by Mrs. William B. Rogers, daughter of James Savage, 1886.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard University Portrait Collection, Bequest of Mrs. William B. Rogers (Emma Savage) to Harvard College, 1911
Object Number: H204
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), pp. 120-121
Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, ed., American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008), p. 257, cat. 270, ill.

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