H124: James Walker (1794-1874)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H124

People

James Frothingham, American (Charlestown, MA 1786 - 1864 Brooklyn, NY)
James Walker (Burlington, Massachusetts 1794-1874 Cambridge, Massachusetts)

Title

James Walker (1794-1874)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

c. 1825

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/310818

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

76.2 x 63.3 cm (30 x 24 15/16 in.)
framed: 101 x 87.6 x 12.1 cm (39 3/4 x 34 1/2 x 4 3/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• plaque: " REV. JAMES WALKER. D.D. L.L.D./1794-----1874/JAMES FROTHINGHAM + PINXIT/ ABOUT 1825"

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Gift of the Harvard Church, Charlestown, to Harvard College, 1905.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of the Harvard Church, Charlestown, to Harvard College, 1905

Object Number

H124

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• "Corporation Records", The Harvard Graduates' Magazine (1904-1905), vol. XIII, no. 49, p. 634.
• Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 140
• 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. 213, 271, 404, cat. 163, ill.

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