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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H119
People
Wellman Morrison, American (Campton, NH 1815 - 1857 Boston, MA)
Charles Sumner (1811-1874)
Title
Charles Sumner (1811-1874)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1856
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/311062

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
76.5 x 63.8 cm (30 1/8 x 25 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.l.: W. Morrison / 1856

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
From the estate of the artist to the Reverend Oliver C. Everett, administrator of the estate, 1857; gift of Oliver C. Everett to Harvard College, 1874.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Oliver C. Everett to Harvard College, 1874
Object Number
H119
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • "A Young Artist", Boston Evening Transcript (April 1, 1857), p. 2
  • 1874 Harvard College Treasurer's Statement, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, 1874), p. 5
  • Charles C. Chatfield & Co., The College Courant. A Weekly Journal Devoted to College Interests, Science, and Literature (New Haven, CT, 1874), p. 188
  • Justin Winsor, The Memorial History of Boston, James R. Osgood & Co. (Boston, MA, 1882), p. 392
  • Edward Lillie Pierce, Memoir and Letters of Charles Sumner, Roberts Brothers (Boston, MA, 1894), vol. 4, p. 609
  • William Garrott Brown, A List of Portraits in the Various Buildings of Harvard University, Harvard University Library (Cambridge, MA, 1898), p. 39
  • Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), pp. 131-132, ill. p. 131
  • 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. 348-49, 366, cat. 313, ill.

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