H2: Charles Greely Loring (1794-1867)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H2

People

William Page, American (Albany, NY 1811 - 1885 Staten Island, NY)
Charles Greely Loring (1794-1868)

Title

Charles Greely Loring (1794-1867)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

c. 1840-1850

Places

Creation Place: North America

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/305104

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

76.3 x 63.5 cm (30 1/16 x 25 in.)
framed: 99.1 x 86.4 x 12.1 cm (39 x 34 x 4 3/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• plaque: First chairman of Memorial Hall Committee of Fifty

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Gift of the children of Charles G. Loring to Harvard College, 1877.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of the children of Charles G. Loring to Harvard College, 1877

Object Number

H2

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. 27
• Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 88
• Frank N. Jones, "The Libraries of the Harvard Houses", Harvard Library Bulletin (Autumn 1948), vol. 2, p. 365
• 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), p. 376-77, cat. 341

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