H417: Andrew Preston Peabody (1811-1893)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H417

People

Frederic Porter Vinton, American (Bangor, ME 1846 - 1911 Boston, MA)
Andrew Preston Peabody (1811-1893)

Title

Andrew Preston Peabody (1811-1893)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

1885

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/304789

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

127.2 x 101.9 cm (50 1/16 x 40 1/8 in.)
framed: 168.9 x 143.2 x 10.8 cm (66 1/2 x 56 3/8 x 4 1/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: u.l.: Fred'c. P. Vinton '85

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Probably commissioned by Andrew Preston Peabody, 1885; his daughter Caroline E. Peabody, probably 1893.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Bequest of Caroline E. Peabody, 1932

Object Number

H417

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. 106
• Andrew Oliver, Ann Millspaugh Huff, and Edward W. Hanson, Portraits in the Massachusetts Historical Society: An Illustrated Catalogue with Descriptive Matter, Massachusetts Historical Society (Boston, MA, 1988), p. 74
• 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. 379, cat. 411, ill.

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