H87: Martin Brimmer (1829-1896)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H87

People

Sarah Wyman Whitman, American (Baltimore, MD 1842 - 1904 Boston, MA)
Martin Brimmer (1829 - 1896)

Title

Martin Brimmer (1829-1896)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

1896

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States, Massachusetts, Boston

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/304962

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

61 x 51.1 cm (24 x 20 1/8 in.)
framed: 97.5 x 87.3 x 5.1 cm (38 3/8 x 34 3/8 x 2 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: u.l.: March SWW (monogram in heart) XCVI
• label: reverse of frame: Portrait Martin Brimmer/artists Sarah W. Whitman/Return to (Doll & Richards) Harvard College/(Park Street Boston) [words in parentheses were crossed out]
• inscription: reverse of frame: Th. Jacobson Picture Frames for Artists/made to order/136 W. 30th Street/New York/W.C. Le Brocq/ Frames Gilded/in Metal Leaf or Gold Lacquered and/intended to harmonize with paintings/Plate Glass Furnished/136 W. 30th Street/New York
• label: reverse of stretcher: Museum of Fine Arts/820CB/Boston, Mass.
• label: reverse of frame: Return to/T.A. Wilmurt & Son,/54 East 13th Street,/New York
• label: reverse of stretcher: Size (illegible)/Frost & Adams/37(?) Cornhill, Boston

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Bequest of Mrs. Sarah Whitman to Harvard College, 1904.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Bequest of Mrs. Sarah Whitman to Harvard College, 1904

Object Number

H87

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

An earlier, unfinished version of this portrait, dated 1892, is in the collection of the MFA, Boston.

Publication History

• Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), pp. 28-29
• 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. 442-43, cat. 468, ill.

Exhibition History

• Unidentified Sarah W. Whitman Exhibition, MFA Boston, 1906, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 05/01/1906 - 12/31/1906

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