H109: James Walker (1794-1874)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H109

People

William Morris Hunt, American (Brattleboro, VT 1824 - 1879 Isles of Shoals, NH)
James Walker (Burlington, Massachusetts 1794-1874 Cambridge, Massachusetts)

Title

James Walker (1794-1874)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

1860

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/300049

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

92.1 x 71.1 cm (36 1/4 x 28 in.)
framed: 122.2 x 101.6 x 9.2 cm (48 1/8 x 40 x 3 5/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: l.r.: W. M. Hunt/1860

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Gift of Class of 1860 to Harvard College, 1860.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Class of 1860 to Harvard College, 1860

Object Number

H109

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• William Garrott Brown, A List of Portraits in the Various Buildings of Harvard University, Harvard University Library (Cambridge, MA, 1898), p. 42
• Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 140, ill. p. 139
• Bessie Zaban Jones and Lyle Gifford Boyd, The Harvard College Observatory: The First Four Directorships, 1839-1919, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1971), p. 94, fig. 19
• Martha J. Hoppin, "William Morris Hunt: Aspects of his Work" (1974), Unpublished and Harvard University, pp. 78-79, fig. 68
• Henry Adams and Martha J. Hoppin, William Morris Hunt: A Memorial Exhibition, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1979), pp. 13, 14
• Sally Webster, William Morris Hunt 1824 - 1879, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, England, 1991), p. 49
• 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), p. 271, cat. 218, ill.

Exhibition History

• Introduction to Harvard University, Isetan Department Store, Tokyo, 04/01/1974 - 04/30/1974
• William Morris Hunt: A Memorial Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 06/26/1979 - 08/19/1979

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