George Edward Ellis (1814-1894) | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: H127
People: Francis Alexander, American (Killingly, CT 1800 - 1880 Florence, Italy)
George Edward Ellis (1814 - 1894)
Title: George Edward Ellis (1814-1894)
Classification: Paintings
Work Type: painting
Date: 1844
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/310905

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

91.4 x 73 cm (36 x 28 3/4 in.)
framed: 121.9 x 104.1 x 11.4 cm (48 x 41 x 4 1/2 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

plaque: "REV GEORGE EDWARD ELLIS. D.D. L.L.D./ 1814-1894/ FRANCES ALEXANDER : PINXIT./ 1844"

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: George Edward Ellis, 1844; Harvard Church, Charlestown, MA; Harvard College, 1905.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Harvard Church, Charlestown, to Harvard College, 1905
Object Number: H127
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. 53
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. 46-47, cat. 5, ill.

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