H408: Benjamin Rand (1856-1934)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H408

People

Frank Hector Tompkins, American (Hector, NY 1847 - 1922 Boston, MA)
Benjamin Rand (1856-1934)

Title

Benjamin Rand (1856-1934)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

1917

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/304803

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

101.4 x 81.3 cm (39 15/16 x 32 in.)
framed: 115.6 x 95.6 x 4.5 cm (45 1/2 x 37 5/8 x 1 3/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: u.r.: F. H. Tompkins / 1917
• inscription: u.r., painted and incised: [painted:] To my friend / [incised:] Benjamin / Rand. / Ph.D. / [painted:] Librarian / of the / Emerson / Philosophical / Library / [incised, spelled out vertically:] HARVARD

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Presumably gift of the artist to Benjamin Rand.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Benjamin Rand to the University Portrait Collection, 1931

Object Number

H408

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), pp. 113-114
• 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. 367, cat. 298, ill.

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