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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H254
People
Daniel Huntington, American (New York, NY 1816 - 1906 New York, NY)
Benjamin Peirce (Salem, Massachusetts 1809-1880 Cambridge, Massachusetts)
Title
Benjamin Peirce (1809-1880)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1857
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/299546

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
75.6 x 63.5 cm (29 3/4 x 25 in.)
framed: 86.7 x 73.7 x 5.7 cm (34 1/8 x 29 x 2 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r.: D. Huntington / 1857

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Commissioned by William P. Wright, 1857; family of Daniel Huntington; descent in family, 1906; purchased by George Plimpton, c. 1923; his gift to Harvard University, 1924.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of George A. Plimpton to Harvard University, 1924
Object Number
H254
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. 107
  • Alan Burroughs, Limners and Likenesses: Three Centuries of American Painting, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 166, fig. 132
  • Louise Todd Ambler, Early Science at Harvard: Innovators and Their Instruments, 1765 - 1865, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, December 1969-January 1970), pp. 62-63, 79, cat. 66
  • Lillian B. Miller, The Lazzaroni, Science and Scientists in Mid-Nineteenth Century America, Smithsonian Institution Press (Washington, D.C., 1972), pp. 18-19, ill.
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Melissa Renn, American Paintings at Harvard, Volume One: Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels by Artists Born before 1826, Yale University Press (U.S.) and Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge and New Haven, 2014), pp. 282-83, cat. 229, ill.

Exhibition History

  • Early Science at Harvard, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 12/18/1969 - 02/01/1970
  • The Lazzaroni, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, 12/26/1972 - 05/30/1973

Verification Level

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