2009.80: Mary Eliot Holyoke (Mrs. Elizur Holyoke) (1655-1721)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2009.80

People

Unidentified Artist

Title

Mary Eliot Holyoke (Mrs. Elizur Holyoke) (1655-1721)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

c. 1700-1715

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/327031

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

87.6 x 76.8 cm (34 1/2 x 30 1/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• label: glued to verso of canvas: Mary Holyoke (was Elliot)-Mother of Rev(d) Edw(d) Holyoke died February 2 1721 at Boston aged 65 or 66. dau(r) of Mr. Jacob Elliot of Boston.
• label: stuck to verso of canvas: Mary Eliot Holyoke
  Mother of .....?
  Mary Eliot Nichols
  choice of .....?
  
• label: stuck to lower strainer member: Mr. & Mrs. Nichols
  from M.N. Nichols.
  
• inscription: in ink, in the lower left corner of frame (possibly original?): Mary
  Grandmother
  of EAH MD
  Died 1721
  

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Mary Holyoke; to her son, President Edward Holyoke of Harvard, c. 1721; by descent to Andrew Nichols, by 1901; Northeast Auctions, 2004; purchased by Robert Trent and Alan Miller.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Daniel A. Pollack, Class of 1960, American Art Acquisition Fund, purchased in honor of Sandra Grindlay, Curator of the Harvard University Portrait Collection 1990-2009

Accession Year

2009

Object Number

2009.80

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• George F. Dow, The Holyoke Diaries 1709-1856 (Salem, Massachusetts, 1911), ill. p. xiii
• Charles Knowles Bolton, The Founders: portraits of persons born abroad who came to the colonies in North America before the year 1701, Boston Athenaeum (Boston, MA, 1919 - 1926), vol. III, ill. 931.
• 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. 204, cat. 1072
• 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. 492-93, cat. 457, ill.

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