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Portrait of Young Boy

Maker (American, active mid-19th century)
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
Status
On view
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.
Object number2016.25.110
Portrait of Young Girl
Prior-Hamblin School
ca. 1840 - 1850
Object number: 2016.25.111
A Portrait of Two Children
Sturtevant J. Hamblin
ca. 1845 - 1850
Object number: 2016.25.108
Mr. Hiram Hall of Portland, Maine
William Matthew Prior
ca. 1839
Object number: 2006.18.2
Mrs. Eunice Hall of Portland, Maine
William Matthew Prior
1839
Object number: 2006.18.1
Portrait of a Young Boy
Sheldon Peck
ca. 1830
Object number: L2021.11
Portrait of a Young Child
Mary Beale
ca. 1660-1663
Object number: 2000.14
Untitled (Portrait of a Young Man with Red Curtain)
Sheldon Peck
ca. 1827-1830
Object number: L2015.41.160