John Henry Twachtman Catalogue Raisonné
An online catalogue by Lisa N. Peters, Ph.D., in collaboration with the Greenwich Historical Society
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Harbor View, Newport, ca. 1889 (OP.836). Fig. 1. North elevation, Colony House, North Elevation, Washington Square, Newport Rhode Island, from Historic American Buildings Survey, photograph by Frank Farley, published 1917, copy by Frank Farley, Library of Congress Prints and Photograph Division, Washington, D.C.
Fig. 1. North elevation, Colony House, North Elevation, Washington Square, Newport Rhode Island, from Historic American Buildings Survey, photograph by Frank Farley, published 1917, copy by Frank Farley, Library of Congress Prints and Photograph Division, Washington, D.C.
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Keywords
OP.836
Harbor View, Newport
Alternate title: Harbor View
ca. 1889
Oil on canvas
14 x 17 1/2 in. (35.6 x 44.4 cm)
Private collection
Provenance
Estate sale, New York, 2007;
to (Dean Borghi, Harrington Park, New Jersey, 2007);
to (Christie's, New York, September 28, 2010, lot 96);
to present collection, 2010.
Literature
Christie's, New York 2010–II
American Paintings. Auction catalogue, September 28, 2010. New York: Christie's, 2010, lot 96 ill. in color, as Harbor View.
Commentary

In this view of Newport, the building with a small dome in the right distance is the Colony House, built 1736–39 as a meeting house for the colonial legislature of the town (fig. 1). Twachtman depicted the same scene in a pastel, incorrectly identified as a view of Gloucester (P.808). Here he stood closer to the dock, where the side of a ship, its stern facing the viewer, continues from the vertical pilings in the foreground and connects visually with the far shore.