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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H283
People
Frederic Porter Vinton, American (Bangor, ME 1846 - 1911 Boston, MA)
William Lambert Richardson (1842 - 1932)
Title
William Lambert Richardson (1842-1932)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1889
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/299477

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
106.7 x 86.7 cm (42 x 34 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: u.r.: Frederic P. Vinton / 1889
  • (not assigned): Label on frame:
    William Lambert Richardson, A.M., M.D. / Dean of the Medical School 1899 [or 1889?] - 1909[?]. Dean of the Faculty of Medicine 1899-1907 / Professor of Obstetrics 188[?]01907. Professor of Obstetrics, Emeritus.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Commissioned by the sitter, May 1889.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift through Dr. John Collins Warren and other physicians to the Harvard Medical School, 1912
Object Number
H283
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. 115
  • 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. 380-81, cat. 413, ill. p. 381

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