Portrait of Young Boy

Maker Prior-Hamblin School (American, active mid-19th century)

Collections

Jonathan and Karin Fielding Collection

ClassificationsPAINTINGS

Dateca. 1840 - 1850

Mediumoil on heavy paper (paper laminate)

Dimensionsframe: 17 1/4 x 13 1/4 x 1 1/4 in. (43.8 x 33.7 x 3.2 cm.) frame opening: 14 1/4 × 10 1/4 in. (36.2 × 26 cm.)

DescriptionPortrait of young blonde boy dressed in gray with whip in his hand. See also “Portrait of Young Girl”

Credit LineThe Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Gift of Jonathan and Karin Fielding

Label Text"Prior-Hamblin School" denotes paintings that connot be securely attributed, but that resemble the work of William Matthew Prior (1806-1873), Sturtevant Hamblin (1817-1884), or other artists identified with this group, all active in the mid-19th century. Prior and Hamblin were brothers-in-law and portrait painters who worked in New York and Boston and are known to have collaborated.

Status

On view

Object number2016.25.110