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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H144
People
Frederic Porter Vinton, American (Bangor, ME 1846 - 1911 Boston, MA)
James Clarke White (1833 - 1916)
Title
James Clark White (1833-1916)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1903
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/310948

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
107.3 x 87 cm (42 1/4 x 34 1/4 in.)
framed: 136.5 x 115.6 x 15.2 cm (53 3/4 x 45 1/2 x 6 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: u.r.: Frederic P. Vinton 1903
  • label: back of frame, lower left: Saint-Botolph Club/Portrait Exhibition January 3, 1905/Valued at (with frame) $1500
  • label: on back at top: Foster Brothers,/4 Park Square,/ Boston,/ Pictures and Frames
  • label:

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Commissioned in 1903 for Harvard Medical School.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of members of the faculty to the Harvard Medical School, 1903
Object Number
H144
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 145
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, ed., American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008), p. 384, cat. 416, ill.

Exhibition History

  • Portrait Exhibition, St. Botolph Club, 01/03/1905 - 01/31/1905

Verification Level

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