H434: William Ellery Channing (1780-1842)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H434

People

Spiridione Gambardella, American (Italy c. 1815 - 1886 Italy)
William Ellery Channing (1780 - 1842)

Title

William Ellery Channing (1780-1842)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

1838

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/304794

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas mounted on board

Dimensions

oval: 47.2 x 39.5 cm (18 9/16 x 15 9/16 in.)
framed: 63.5 x 53.3 x 3.5 cm (25 x 21 x 1 3/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• plaque: "William Ellery Channing"

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Gift of Jonathan Phillips to Frederick Augustus Eustis, Harvard Class of 1835; Gift of Frederick A. Eustis, in accordance with the will of Mary Channing Eustis (1818-1891), widow of Frederick A. Eustis and daughter or William Ellery Channing, to Harvard University, 1934.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Frederick A. Eustis, Class of 1835, in accordance with the will of Mary Channing Eustis

Object Number

H434

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• William Henry Channing, The Life of William Ellery Channing, American Unitarian Association (Boston, 1880), pp. 701-702, frontispiece
• Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 37
• D. H. Meyer, "The Saint as Hero: William Ellery Channing and the 19th-Century Mind", Winterthur Portfolio (Charlottesville, VA, 1973), 8, p. 172. fig. 1
• Anne-Marie Taylor, Young Charles Sumner and the Legacy of the American Enlightenment, 1811-1851, University of Massachusetts Press (Amherst, MA, 2001), ill. p. 46
• Dean Grodzins, American Heretic: Theodore Parker and Transcendentalism, The University of North Carolina Press (Chapel Hill and London, 2002), ill.
• Kenneth S. Sacks, Understanding Emerson : "The American Scholar" and His Struggle for Self-Reliance, Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ, 2003), p. 25, fig. 3
• Megan Marshall, The Peabody Sisters : Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism, Houghton Mifflin Company (Boston, MA, 2005), ill. p. 163
• 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. 219-20, cat. 170, ill.

Exhibition History

• National Academy of Design, NY, National Academy of Design, 01/01/1839 - 12/31/1839
• Boston Athenaeum, Boston Athenaeum, 01/01/1872 - 12/31/1872
• Boston Athenaeum II, Boston Athenaeum, 01/01/1873 - 12/31/1873

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