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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
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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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