H447: Charles Sumner (1811-1874)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H447

People

Walter M. Brackett, American (Unity, ME 1823 - 1919 Boston, MA)
Charles Sumner (1811-1874)

Title

Charles Sumner (1811-1874)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

c. 1854

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/304808

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

76 x 63.5 cm (29 15/16 x 25 in.)
framed: 108.6 x 95.6 x 11.8 cm (42 3/4 x 37 5/8 x 4 5/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Edward A. Presbrey, Esq. to his son Palmer E. Presbrey; his bequest to Harvard University, 1936.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Bequest of Palmer E. Presbrey, Class of 1885, 1936

Object Number

H447

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Edward Lillie Pierce, Memoir and Letters of Charles Sumner, Roberts Brothers (Boston, MA, 1894), vol. 4, p. 609
• William Harrison De Puy and T.S. Baynes, The Encyclopedia Brittanica, Werner and Co. (Chicago, IL, 1896), p. 329
• Thomas William Herringshaw, Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century, brochure, American Publishers Association (Chicago, IL, 1901), p. 138
• 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
• 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. 99-100, 349, 366, cat. 50, ill.

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