H134: James Walker (1794-1874)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H134

People

Henry Cheever Pratt, American (Orford, NH 1803 - 1880 Wakefield, MA)
James Walker (Burlington, Massachusetts 1794-1874 Cambridge, Massachusetts)

Title

James Walker (1794-1874)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

c. 1830

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/310910

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

112.4 x 87 cm (44 1/4 x 34 1/4 in.)
framed: 142.2 x 119.4 x 17.8 cm (56 x 47 x 7 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• label: bottom of frame: REV. JAMES WALKER, D.D., L.L.D./1794-1874/HENRY C. PRATT PINXIT/ABOUT 1830

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

The artist; to his son; to the Harvard Church, Charlestown; Gift of Harvard Church, Charlestown to Harvard College, 1905.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of the Harvard Church, Charlestown, to Harvard College, 1905

Object Number

H134

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Services at the Dedication of a Mural Monument to James Walker, D.D., LL.D. in the Harvard Church in Charlestown..., John Wilson and Son (Cambridge, MA, 1884), p. 7
• Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), pp. 140-141
• 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. 271, 403-04, cat. 364, ill.

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