H1: George Frisbie Hoar (1826-1904)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H1

People

Frederic Porter Vinton, American (Bangor, ME 1846 - 1911 Boston, MA)
George Frisbie Hoar (1826 - 1904)

Title

George Frisbie Hoar (1826-1904)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

1888-1889

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/304882

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

115.2 x 86.8 cm (45 3/8 x 34 3/16 in.)
framed: 141 x 114.3 x 15.2 cm (55 1/2 x 45 x 6 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Commissioned by a committee of the Class of 1846 for Harvard University, 1888.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of a committee of the Class of 1846, 1890

Object Number

H1

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• William Garrott Brown, A List of Portraits in the Various Buildings of Harvard University, Harvard University Library (Cambridge, MA, 1898), p. 22
• Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), pp. 73-74
• 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. 377, cat. 412, ill.

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