H334: Collis Potter Huntington (1821-1900)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H334

People

Francis Lathrop, British (at sea 1849 - 1909 Woodcliffe Lake, NJ)
Collis Potter Huntington (1821-1900)

Title

Collis Potter Huntington (1821-1900)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

1900

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/299548

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

101.6 x 83.8 cm (40 x 33 in.)
framed: 111.1 x 102.9 x 6 cm (43 3/4 x 40 1/2 x 2 3/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: inscribed top: Francis Lathrop Pinxit. MDCCCC
• inscription: u.r.: C P H
• label: attached brass plaque "COLLIS POTTER HUNTINGTON/ 1821-1960"

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Arabella Duval Huntington, wife of the sitter; her bequest to her son, Archer Huntington, 1924.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Mr. Archer Huntington to the Huntington Memorial Hospital (Harvard University), 1925

Object Number

H334

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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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. 79
• 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. 213, cat. 164, ill.

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