H419: Thomas Gold Appleton (1812-1884)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H419

People

Frederic Porter Vinton, American (Bangor, ME 1846 - 1911 Boston, MA)
Thomas Gold Appleton (1812 - 1884)

Title

Thomas Gold Appleton (1812-1884)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

1878

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/304778

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

sight: 90.1 x 72.3 cm (35 1/2 x 28 7/16 in.)
framed: 124.5 x 109.2 x 10.2 cm (49 x 43 x 4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: u. r.: Fred'c P. Vinton/1878
• label: bronze plaque below painting "THOMAS GOLD APPLETON, 1812-1884/ Essayist and Poet/ By Frederic Porter Vinton"

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Commissioned by Thomas Gold Appleton, 1878; estate of his brother Nathan Appleton, probably 1884; to his son William Sumner Appleton, 1911; to his sisters, Dorothy A. Weld, Eleanor A. Standen, and Gladys H. Winterbottom, 1951; their gift to Harvard College, 1952.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Dorothy A. Weld, Eleanor A. Standen and Gladys H. Winterbottom

Object Number

H419

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), p. 15
• Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, ed., American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008), p. 377, cat. 409, ill.

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