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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H142
People
Frederic Porter Vinton, American (Bangor, ME 1846 - 1911 Boston, MA)
Charles Burnham Porter (1840-1909)
Title
Charles Burnham Porter (1840-1909)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1911
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/310987

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
123.2 x 99.1 cm (48 1/2 x 39 in.)
framed: 132.7 x 109.9 x 3.8 cm (52 1/4 x 43 1/4 x 1 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: u.l.: Frederic P. Vinton, 1911

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Commissioned by Mrs. Charles B. Porter, widow of the subject, 1910.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Mrs. Charles B. Porter to Harvard Medical School, 1911
Object Number
H142
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. 112
  • 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. 385, cat. 417, ill.

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