H137: Calvin Ellis (1826-1883)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H137

People

Frederic Porter Vinton, American (Bangor, ME 1846 - 1911 Boston, MA)
Calvin Ellis (1826-1883)

Title

Calvin Ellis (1826-1883)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

c. 1880-1885

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/310946

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

stretcher: 68.8 × 55.8 cm (27 1/16 × 21 15/16 in.)
frame: 99.4 × 86.7 × 15.2 cm (39 1/8 × 34 1/8 × 6 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Possibly commissioned by the sitter or posthumously by his sister, Lucy Ellis; her gift to Harvard College, 1889.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Miss Lucy Ellis to Harvard College for the Harvard Medical School, 1889

Object Number

H137

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. 16
• Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 53
• 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. 378, cat. 410, ill.

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