H670: Caroline Howard Gilman (Mrs. Samuel Gilman) (1794-1888)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H670

People

Attributed to John Wesley Jarvis, American (South Shields, England 1780 - 1840 New York, NY)
Caroline Howard Gilman (1794 - 1888)
Previously attributed to John Vanderlyn, American (Kingston, NY 1775 - 1852 Kingston, NY)
Previously attributed to Henry Inman, American (Utica, NY 1801 - 1846 New York, NY)

Title

Caroline Howard Gilman (Mrs. Samuel Gilman) (1794-1888)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

c. 1820

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/302054

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

76.5 x 63.5 cm (30 1/8 x 25 in.)
framed: 94.6 x 81.9 x 6.4 cm (37 1/4 x 32 1/4 x 2 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Purchased by Sarah Bryant Fay (1855-1938), grand-niece of Caroline Howard Gilman, from the Ehrich Galleries, New York (as by John Vanderlyn), 1926; gift to her niece, Margaret Fay Motley (b. 1882); bequeathed to her daughter, Phyllis Motley Lawrence (Mrs. William Lawrence); gift of Mr. and Mrs. William Lawrence to Harvard University, 1982.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William Lawrence, 1982

Object Number

H670

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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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), p. 303, cat. 263, ill.

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