H712: Walter Channing (1786-1876),after Joseph Alexander Ames

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H712

People

William Franklin Draper, American (Hopedale, MA 1912 - 2003)
Walter Channing (1786 - 1876)
Copy after Joseph Alexander Ames, American (Roxbury, NH 1816 - 1872 New York, NY)

Title

Walter Channing (1786-1876),after Joseph Alexander Ames

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

1946

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/305245

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

75.6 x 62.9 cm (29 3/4 x 24 3/4 in.)
framed: 91.4 x 78.7 x 7.9 cm (36 x 31 x 3 1/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: canvas back, u.r.: William F. Draper 1946
• inscription: u.r. back of canvas: Portrait of / Dr. Walter Channing / after Ames / by William F. Draper 1946
• inscription: back, u.r.: Portrait of / Dr. Walter Channing/ after Ames/ by William F. Draper 1946
• inscription: back, top center: Haley & Streele/Art Dealers/ ?..9 St. James Ave./Boston/Mass (dark blue with gold print)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Walter Channing; his gift to the Harvard Medical School, October 1947.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Mr. Walter Channing to the Harvard Medical School, October 1947

Object Number

H712

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Megan Marshall, The Peabody Sisters : Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism, Houghton Mifflin Company (Boston, MA, 2005), b&w, p. 193

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