Robert Troup Paine (1829-1851) | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: H116
People: Samuel Stillman Osgood, American (New Haven, CT 1808 - 1885 California)
Robert Troup Paine (1829-1851)
Title: Robert Troup Paine (1829-1851)
Classification: Paintings
Work Type: painting
Date: c. 1851
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/304646

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

76 x 63 cm (29 15/16 x 24 13/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

stamp: stamp: PREPARED BY/THEO KELLEY/REAR 35 W...NEW YORK
inscription: inscribed verso: "Robert Troupe Paine, Son of Martyn and Mary Ann Paine/ Born in the City of New York, August 10, 1829. Died/ at Harvard College, March 8, 1851./ Taken after his death from a cast."

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Gift to Harvard College, 1879

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift to Harvard College, 1879
Object Number: H116
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Martyn Paine and Mary Ann Weeks Paine, Memoir of Robert Troup Paine, J.F. Trow, printer (New York, NY, 1852), frontis, ill.
"Prof. Martyn Paine's Will", The New York Times (November 17, 1877), p. 8
Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 103

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