H485: Eliphalet Pearson (1752-1826), after Samuel F.B. Morse

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H485

People

James Frothingham, American (Charlestown, MA 1786 - 1864 Brooklyn, NY)
Eliphalet Pearson (1752 - 1826)

Title

Eliphalet Pearson (1752-1826), after Samuel F.B. Morse

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

after 1817

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/304512

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

61 x 50.8 cm (24 x 20 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Martha C. Pearson; her bequest to the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1939; their gift to Harvard University, 1940.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1940

Object Number

H485

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Marc Arkin, "The Force of Ancient Manners: Federalist Politics and the Unitarian Controversy Revisited", Journal of the Early Republic (Winter 2002), vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 575-610, ill. p. 592
• Conrad Edwick Wright, Revolutionary Generation: Harvard Men and the Consequences of Independence (Amherst, MA, 2005), p. 174
• 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), p. 212, cat. 162, ill.
• Grant Hamming, "Adding Voices to Harvard's Past", Index Magazine, Harvard Art Museums (December 8, 2017)

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