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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H447
People
Walter M. Brackett, American (Unity, ME 1823 - 1919 Boston, MA)
Charles Sumner (1811-1874)
Title
Charles Sumner (1811-1874)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1854
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/304808

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
76 x 63.5 cm (29 15/16 x 25 in.)
framed: 108.6 x 95.6 x 11.8 cm (42 3/4 x 37 5/8 x 4 5/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Edward A. Presbrey, Esq. to his son Palmer E. Presbrey; his bequest to Harvard University, 1936.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Bequest of Palmer E. Presbrey, Class of 1885, 1936
Object Number
H447
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Edward Lillie Pierce, Memoir and Letters of Charles Sumner, Roberts Brothers (Boston, MA, 1894), vol. 4, p. 609
  • William Harrison De Puy and T.S. Baynes, The Encyclopedia Brittanica, Werner and Co. (Chicago, IL, 1896), p. 329
  • Thomas William Herringshaw, Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century, brochure, American Publishers Association (Chicago, IL, 1901), p. 138
  • Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), pp. 131-132
  • 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. 99-100, 349, 366, cat. 50, ill.

Verification Level

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