H283: William Lambert Richardson (1842-1932)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H283

People

Frederic Porter Vinton, American (Bangor, ME 1846 - 1911 Boston, MA)
William Lambert Richardson (1842 - 1932)

Title

William Lambert Richardson (1842-1932)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

1889

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/299477

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

106.7 x 86.7 cm (42 x 34 1/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: u.r.: Frederic P. Vinton / 1889
• (not assigned): Label on frame:
  William Lambert Richardson, A.M., M.D. / Dean of the Medical School 1899 [or 1889?] - 1909[?]. Dean of the Faculty of Medicine 1899-1907 / Professor of Obstetrics 188[?]01907. Professor of Obstetrics, Emeritus.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Commissioned by the sitter, May 1889.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift through Dr. John Collins Warren and other physicians to the Harvard Medical School, 1912

Object Number

H283

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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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. 115
• 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. 380-81, cat. 413, ill. p. 381

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