H108: Sir Benjamin Thompson, later Count Rumford (1753-1814), after Moritz Kellerhoven (1758-1830)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H108

People

William Page, American (Albany, NY 1811 - 1885 Staten Island, NY)
After Moritz Kellerhoven, German (Allenrath 1758 - 1830 Munich, Germany)
Benjamin Thompson (1753-1814)

Title

Sir Benjamin Thompson, later Count Rumford (1753-1814), after Moritz Kellerhoven (1758-1830)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

1843

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/304619

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

60.1 x 50.7 cm (23 11/16 x 19 15/16 in.)
framed: 88.5 x 78.2 cm (34 13/16 x 30 13/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Purchased from the artist by the Harvard Corporation for Harvard College, 1843.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Commissioned by the Harvard Corporation for Harvard College,1843

Object Number

H108

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), pp. 36, 40
• Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 133
• Historical Records Survey, Division of Professional and Service Projects, Works Progress Administration, American Portraits, 1620-1825, found in Massachusetts, Volumes 1 and 2, Historical Records Survey (Boston, MA, 1939), p. 405, cat. 2135
• Frank N. Jones, "The Libraries of the Harvard Houses", Harvard Library Bulletin, Harvard University Library (Cambridge, MA, Autumn 1948), vol. II, no. 3, pp. 362-377, p. 365
• Joshua C. Taylor, William Page: The American Titian, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL, 1957), pp. 65, 274, no. 111
• "The Portraits in the Faculty Room, University Hall", Harvard Alumni Bulletin (October 12, 1963), vol. 66, p. 75
• 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. 378-79, cat. 343, ill.

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