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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H191
People
Frank Hector Tompkins, American (Hector, NY 1847 - 1922 Boston, MA)
Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar (1816 - 1895)
Title
Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar (1816-1895)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1887
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/311446

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
111.7 x 86.8 cm (44 x 34 3/16 in.)
framed: 149.9 x 124.5 x 22.9 cm (59 x 49 x 9 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.l.: F. H. Tompkins / '87

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift by subscription to Harvard College, 1888
Object Number
H191
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Greta, "Boston Art News", The Art Amateur (April 1888), v. 18 no. 3, p. 55, p. 55
  • "The Art Club Exhibition", Boston Evening Transcript (January 16, 1888), p.6, p. 6
  • The Boston Art Club. Thirty-Seventh Exhibition [of] Oil Paintings, exh. cat., Boston Art Club (Boston, MA, 1888), no. 29
  • William Garrott Brown, A List of Portraits in the Various Buildings of Harvard University, Harvard University Library (Cambridge, MA, 1898), p. 22
  • "Frank H. Tompkins Dead", Boston Evening Transcript (July 11, 1922), p. 6, p. 6
  • Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 73
  • Janice H. Chadbourne, Karl Gabosh, and Charles O. Vogel, The Boston Art Club: Exhibition Record, 1873-1909, Sound View Press (Madison, CT, 1991), p. 377
  • 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. 366, cat. 397, ill.

Exhibition History

  • Thirty-Seventh Exhibition of Oil Paintings, Boston Art Club, Boston, 01/14/1888 - 02/11/1888

Verification Level

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