HNA45: Thomas Hollis V (1720-1774), fencing with Mr. J. Martin and his son

Identification and Creation

Object Number

HNA45

People

John Green, British? (Hales -Owen, England 1729 - 1787 Oxford, England)
Thomas Hollis V (1720 - 1774)

Title

Thomas Hollis V (1720-1774), fencing with Mr. J. Martin and his son

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

1746

Places

Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom

Culture

British

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/305076

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

88.9 x 113 cm (35 x 44 1/2 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: l.l.: Jn Green fct 1746
• inscription: to left of signature in lower left, white paint, painted: "60"

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Arthur A. Houghton Jr., Class of 1929, to the Houghton Library, 1963

Object Number

HNA45

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Louise Todd Ambler, Early Science at Harvard: Innovators and Their Instruments, 1765 - 1865, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, December 1969-January 1970), pp. 4, 77, cat. 5
• Linda Ayres, Harvard Divided, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1976), p. 155, cat. 89, ill.
• David Wilson, "A Bust of Thomas Hollis by Joseph Wilton RA", British Art Journal (Winter 2004), vol. V No. 3, illus. in color, p. 13, fig. 20

Exhibition History

• Harvard Divided, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/03/1976 - 10/10/1976

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