H70: William Eustis Russell (1857-1896)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H70

People

William Morton Jackson Rice, American (Brooklyn, NY 1854 - 1922 New York, NY)
William Eustis Russell (1857 - 1896)

Title

William Eustis Russell (1857-1896)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

1898

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/304949

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

144.3 x 101.8 cm (56 13/16 x 40 1/16 in.)
framed: 180.3 x 137.2 x 17.8 cm (71 x 54 x 7 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: l.r.: WMJ (monogram) Rice / 98

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Commissioned from the artist, 1898.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of the Harvard College Class of 1877, 1898

Object Number

H70

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• William Garrott Brown, A List of Portraits in the Various Buildings of Harvard University, Harvard University Library (Cambridge, MA, 1898), p. 36
• Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), pp. 118-119
• 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. 276, cat. 288, ill.

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