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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H86
People
William Page, American (Albany, NY 1811 - 1885 Staten Island, NY)
Charles William Eliot (1834-1926)
Title
Charles William Eliot (1834-1926)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1875-1876
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/299948

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
132.7 x 89.5 cm (52 1/4 x 35 1/4 in.)
framed: 170 x 126 x 8.7 cm (66 15/16 x 49 5/8 x 3 7/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Gift of Uriel H. Crocker, Arthur T. Lyman, and other members of the Class of 1853 to Harvard College, 1876.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Uriel H. Crocker, Arthur T. Lyman, and other members of the Class of 1853 to Harvard College, 1876
Object Number
H86
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • "Notes", American Art Journal (1876), vol. 2, p. 64
  • "The Arts. Representative Pictures at the Academy", Appleton's Journal (April 15, 1876), vol. 15, p. 508
  • William Howe Downes, "Boston Painters and Paintings III", Atlantic Monthly (September 1888), vol. 62, p. 384
  • William Garrott Brown, A List of Portraits in the Various Buildings of Harvard University, Harvard University Library (Cambridge, MA, 1898), p. 16
  • Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), pp. 50-51
  • Alan Burroughs, Limners and Likenesses: Three Centuries of American Painting, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 164, fig. 134
  • Joshua C. Taylor, "The Fascinating Mrs. Page", Art Quarterly (Winter 1957), vol. 20, p. 362, ill. p. 365
  • Joshua C. Taylor, William Page: The American Titian, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL, 1957), pp. 213-15, 235, 262-63, no. 34, fig. 53
  • Van Deren Coke, The Painter and the Photograph from Delacroix to Warhol, University of New Mexico Press (Albuquerque, NM, 1972), p. 39, ill. detail
  • Martha J. Hoppin, "William Morris Hunt: Aspects of his Work" (1974), Unpublished and Harvard University, p. 85, fig. 80
  • William Howe Downes, "William Page", Dictionary of American Biography (1977), vol. 7, p. 145
  • 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. 381-82, cat. 346, ill.

Exhibition History

  • National Academy of Design, Fifty-first Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, 01/01/1876 - 01/01/1876

Verification Level

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