H674: Henry James (1811-1882)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H674

People

Frank Duveneck, American (Covington, KY 1848 - 1919 Cincinnati, OH)
Henry James (1811 - 1882)

Title

Henry James (1811-1882)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

c. 1881-1882

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/305023

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

50 x 32.5 cm (19 11/16 x 12 13/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Descent through the family to Jessie Holladay James, wife of John S. R. James, Jr., grandson of William James and great-grandson of the sitter.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Mrs. John S. R. James, Jr. to the University, 1983

Object Number

H674

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Walter H. Siple, Exhibition of the Work of Frank Duveneck, exh. cat., Cincinnati Art Museum (Cincinnati, Ohio, 1936), p. 78
• Alfred Habegger, The Father: A Life of Henry James, Sr., Farrar, Straus & Giroux (New York, NY, 1994)
• James Duban, "Charles Darwin, Henry James, Sr., and 'Evolution'", Harvard Library Bulletin (Cambridge, MA, Fall 1996), pp. 45-62
• 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. 94, cat. 63, ill.

Exhibition History

• Exhbition of the Work of Frank Duveneck, Cincinnati Art Museum, 05/23/1936 - 06/21/1936

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