H355: Charles Sumner (1811-1874)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H355

People

Nahum Ball Onthank, American (Holliston, MA 1823 - 1888 Boston, MA)
Charles Sumner (1811-1874)

Title

Charles Sumner (1811-1874)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

1868

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/304726

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

137.8 x 106 cm (54 1/4 x 41 3/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: l.r.: Onthank 1868

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Bequeathed from the artist to his son, Arthur Onthank; his gift to Harvard University, 1927.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Arthur Onthank, son of Nahum B. Onthank, to Harvard University, 1927

Object Number

H355

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), pp. 131-132
• Arthur Onthank, The Onthank Family: Its History and Genealogy, Martinsville Reporter Press (Martinsville, IN, 1959), p. 71
• 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. 349, 366, cat. 331, ill.

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