H617: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H617

People

Thomas Buchanan Read, American (Chester County, PA 1822 - 1872 New York, NY)
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)

Title

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

1859

Places

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

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/305017

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

82.2 x 68.9 cm (32 3/8 x 27 1/8 in.)
framed: 96.5 x 83.5 x 4.8 cm (38 x 32 7/8 x 1 7/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: on verso: June 27, 1859

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Purchased by Eugene Bernat, Boston.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Mr. Eugene Bernat to Harvard University, 1966

Object Number

H617

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Louise Todd Ambler, Early Science at Harvard: Innovators and Their Instruments, 1765 - 1865, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, December 1969-January 1970), pp. 68-69, cat. 73, ill.
• 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. 411-412, cat. 371, ill.

Exhibition History

• Early Science at Harvard, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 12/18/1969 - 02/01/1970
• Introduction to Harvard University, Isetan Department Store, Tokyo, 04/01/1974 - 04/30/1974

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