William Paine (1750-1833), c. 1830

| Chester Harding (1792-1866)
| oil on canvas
| 33 1/4 x 27 1/4 (84.46 x 69.22)
| Bequest of Russell Sturgis Paine, 1959
| Weis 93

Ex. Coll.: sitter to his son Frederick William Paine, possibly to his son George S. Paine, through the family to the donor who, in 1911, placed the canvas on loan to the American Antiquarian Society.

Exhibitions:
1891, "Portraits by American Artists," Worcester Public Library.

Publications:
Clifford K. Shipton, Sibley’s Harvard Graduates 17 (Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1975): 359.
Leah Lipton, A Truthful Likeness: Chester Harding and His Portraits (Washington, D.C.: National Portrait Gallery, 1985): 173.

 

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