H96: Cornelius Conway Felton (1807-1862)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H96

People

Joseph Alexander Ames, American (Roxbury, NH 1816 - 1872 New York, NY)
Cornelius Conway Felton (West Newbury, Massachusetts 1807 - 1862 Chester, Pennsylvania)

Title

Cornelius Conway Felton (1807-1862)

Other Titles

Former Title: Portrait of President Felton

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

1862

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/299879

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

126.8 x 102.2 cm (49 15/16 x 40 1/4 in.)
83 lbs

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: l.l.: Jos. Ames/1862

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Commissioned for Harvard University, 1862.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift by subscription through Edward Everett and others, to Harvard College, 1862

Object Number

H96

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Henry T. Tuckerman, Book of the Artists: American Artist Life, Comprising Biographical and Critical Sketches of American Artists, Preceded by an Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of Art in America, Putnam (New York, NY, 1867), p. 459
• "Art in Boston, More Centennial Pictures", The Aldine, the Art Journal of America (March 1, 1877), p. 8, p. 8
• William Howe Downes, "Boston Painters and Paintings, Part II: Allston and His Contemporaries", The Atlantic Monthly (August 1888), vol. 62, no. 370, pp. 258-266, p. 265
• William Garrott Brown, A List of Portraits in the Various Buildings of Harvard University, Harvard University Library (Cambridge, MA, 1898), p. 17
• "The Faculty Room in University Hall", Harvard Alumni Bulletin (February 12, 1913), vol. xv, no. 20, pp. 323-328, p. 328
• Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), pp. 55-56, ill.
• Alan Burroughs, Limners and Likenesses: Three Centuries of American Painting, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 165
• Martha J. Hoppin, "William Morris Hunt: Aspects of his Work" (1974), Unpublished and Harvard University, p. 75, fig. 62
• Natalie Spassky, Linda Bantel, Doreen Bolger Burke, Meg Perlman, and Amy L. Walsh, American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume II: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1816 and 1845, ed. Kathleen Luhrs, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Princeton University Press (New York, 1985), pp. 11
• Mantle Fielding, Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers, Apollo Publications Inc. (New York, 1986), p. 19
• Kimberly Orcutt, "'Revising History': Creating a Canon of American Art at the Centennial Exhibition" (2005), City University of New York, p. 357
• 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. 73-74, cat. 27, ill.

Exhibition History

• Massachusetts Centennial Art Exhibition, Boston Art Club, Boston, 04/01/1876 - 04/30/1876

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