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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H30
People
Edward E. Simmons, American (Concord, MA 1852 - 1931 Baltimore, MD)
Thomas Hill (1818 - 1891)
Title
Thomas Hill (1818-1891)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1895
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/304886

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
127.3 x 108 cm (50 1/8 x 42 1/2 in.)
framed: 165.1 x 139.7 x 22.9 cm (65 x 55 x 9 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.l.: Edward Simmons
  • label: frame back: (old accession number) 6.1945

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Presumably commissioned by the children of the sitter.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of the children of Thomas Hill to Harvard College, 1895
Object Number
H30
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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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), p. 73
  • 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. 358, cat. 388, ill.

Exhibition History

  • An Exhibition of Important Works by a Number of America's Leading Painters, Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Buffalo, 01/10/1920 - 02/15/1920

Verification Level

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