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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H364
People
Unidentified Artist
Charles Brooks (1795-1872)
Title
The Reverend Charles Brooks (1795-1872)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1850
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/304728

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
75.5 x 63.5 cm (29 3/4 x 25 in.)
framed: 88.9 x 76.2 x 2.9 cm (35 x 30 x 1 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • plaque: bronze plaque:CHARLES BROOKS/ 1795-1872/ ARTIST UNKNOWN

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
John Albree, Boston, MA, family member; his gift to the Graduate School of Education, 1927.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of John Albree to the Graduate School of Education, 1927
Object Number
H364
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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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. 30
  • 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. 483, cat. 447. ill.

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