PaintingsAmerican19th century
Benjamin Peirce (1809-1880)
1857
Artists
Daniel HuntingtonArtist
Benjamin PeirceSitter
Dimensions
75.6 x 63.5 cm (29 3/4 x 25 in.) framed: 86.7 x 73.7 x 5.7 cm (34 1/8 x 29 x 2 1/4 in.)
Provenance
Commissioned by William P. Wright, 1857; family of Daniel Huntington; descent in family, 1906; purchased by George Plimpton, c. 1923; his gift to Harvard University, 1924.
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