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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
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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  • Martha J. Hoppin, "William Morris Hunt: Aspects of his Work" (1974), Unpublished and Harvard University, pp. 78-79, fig. 68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

Verification Level

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