H145: Henry Willard Williams (1821-1895)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H145

People

Jacob Dutweiler Wagner, American (Bavaria, Germany 1852 - 1899 Dedham, MA)
Henry Willard Williams (1821 - 1895)

Title

Henry Willard Williams (1821-1895)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

1888

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/310911

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

122.1 x 86.6 cm (48 1/16 x 34 1/8 in.)
framed: 146.1 x 110.5 x 12.7 cm (57 1/2 x 43 1/2 x 5 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: u.r.: J. Wagner/1888

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Gift of the family of Dr. Henry W. Williams, 1898

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of the family of Dr. Henry W. Williams, 1898

Object Number

H145

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. 44
• Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 148-149
• [Reproduction only], Dean's Report of the Harvard Medical School, (1988-1989)., ill. p.
• 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. 388, cat. 419, ill.

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