Charles Burnham Porter (1840-1909)

Identification and Creation

Object Number: H142
People: Frederic Porter Vinton, American (Bangor, ME 1846 - 1911 Boston, MA)
Charles Burnham Porter (1840-1909)
Title: Charles Burnham Porter (1840-1909)
Classification: Paintings
Work Type: painting
Date: 1911
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/310987

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

123.2 x 99.1 cm (48 1/2 x 39 in.)
framed: 132.7 x 109.9 x 3.8 cm (52 1/4 x 43 1/4 x 1 1/2 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: u.l.: Frederic P. Vinton, 1911

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Commissioned by Mrs. Charles B. Porter, widow of the subject, 1910.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Mrs. Charles B. Porter to Harvard Medical School, 1911
Object Number: H142
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 112
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. 385, cat. 417, ill.

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