Word: kirkland
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...heisted portrait of early 19th century Harvard President John T. Kirkland, which resurfaced in upstate New York earlier this month, is almost certainly not an original Gilbert Stuart painting, an art historian told The Crimson in a phone interview last night...
Although a similar portrait of Kirkland, painted by Stuart, sold for $182,000 in Manchester, N.H., this past summer, the stolen Harvard-owned version appears to be only a copy and is therefore worth considerably less...
...items listed in the Stair Galleries auction was labeled “J.T. Kirkland.” And the figure in that portrait bears a striking resemblance to the sitter in American painter Gilbert Stuart’s 1816 portrait of then-Harvard President John Thornton Kirkland, Class of 1789. Though the auction house estimated a $200 to $400 price tag for the Kirkland portrait, the item ultimately sold...
...history of the newly-resurfaced Kirkland portrait remains unknown, but, according to the University Art Museums Web site, the Copley painting came into Harvard’s hands as a bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop, Class of 1886, who left about 4,000 objects to his alma mater as part of his will...
Stephen E. Dewey ’07 is a government concentrator in Kirkland House, currently on voluntary leave, and a former president of the Harvard Republican Club...