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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1957.2
People
John Johnston, American (Boston, MA c. 1753 - 1818 Boston, MA)
Title
Portrait of a Man
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1795
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/311774

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
sight: 73.7 x 61.6 cm (29 x 24 1/4 in.)
framed: 84.5 x 72.4 x 6 cm (33 1/4 x 28 1/2 x 2 3/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Descended in Coolidge family; Algernon Lowell Coolidge, bequest; to his daughter Anne Coolidge (Mrs. Edward W.) Moore, nd [1], gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1957.

[1] Note in curatorial file states that Moore found the portrait in her attic.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. Edward W. Moore
Accession Year
1957
Object Number
1957.2
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • 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. 314-15, cat. 278, ill.

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