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Identification and Creation

Object Number
C51
People
William Henry Furness, Jr., American (Pennsylvania 1827 - 1867 Cambridge, MA)
Ebenezer Storer (1722 - 1807)
John Singleton Copley, American (Boston, MA 1738 - 1815 London, England)
Title
Ebenezer Storer (1722-1807), after J.S. Copley
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
19th century
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/304678

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black and white chalk on buff paper
Dimensions
sight: 60.3 x 50.2 cm (23 3/4 x 19 3/4 in.)
framed: 68.6 x 57.2 x 3.2 cm (27 x 22 1/2 x 1 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • (not assigned): Label on back: "ADMIRAL" / By ye name of / Storer

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Gift of Anna W. Storer, daughter of Ebenezer Storer, 1850

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Anna W. Storer, daughter of Ebenezer Storer, 1850
Object Number
C51
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. 39
  • Cuthbert Lee, Early American Portrait Painters: The Fourteen Principal Earliest Native-born Painters, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT, 1929), p. 74

Verification Level

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