John Zephaniah Holwell (1711-1798)

Johann Joseph Zoffany, German, 1733 - 1810

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about 1765

Oil on canvas

Canvas: 30 1/16 × 25 1/8 in. (76.3 × 63.8 cm)

Frame: 36 7/16 × 31 5/16 in. (92.5 × 79.5 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. McGoughran, Class of 1920

P.961.244

Geography

Place Made: Germany, Europe

Period

1600-1800

Object Name

Painting

Research Area

Nazi-Era Provenance Research

Painting

Not on view

Inscriptions

Not signed.

Course History

GOVT 86.43/MES 12.14, Intellectual History of Racism, Michelle Clarke and Jonathan Smolin, Spring 2022

History 90.14, The Global British Empire, Tiraana Bains, Winter 2023

History 90.14, The Global British Empire, Tiraana Bains, Winter 2023

Exhibition History

Portraits at Dartmouth, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 10-April 16, 1978.

Publication History

Arthur R. Blumenthal, Portraits at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth Collection, 1978, no. 25, p. 34.

Tristram Stuart, The Bloodless Revolution: Radical Vegetarians and the Discovery of India, London, UK: HarperCollins Publishers, 2006, ill. insert before page 311.

Provenance

Acquired by Frances Armstrong McGoughran (1905-2000) and Charles Fraser McGoughran (1897-1980), Norfolk, Connecticut; given to present collection, 1961.

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