H183: Edward Bromfield Phillips (1824-1848)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H183

People

Unidentified Artist
Edward Bromfield Phillips (1824 - 1848)

Title

Edward Bromfield Phillips (1824-1848)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

c. 1857

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/311241

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

68.8 x 65.2 cm (27 1/16 x 25 11/16 in.)
framed: 98.7 x 85.7 cm (38 7/8 x 33 3/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• label: frame, English: Phillips, Edward Bromfield (1824-1848)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Anonymous gift to Harvard College for the Observatory, 1857

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Anonymous gift to Harvard College for the Observatory, 1857

Object Number

H183

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. 34
• Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 109
• 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. 372, cat. 404, ill.

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