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Edwin Hall of Boston

Previously attributed to Charles Fraser (American, 1782-1860) (Artist)
ca. 1820
watercolor on ivory
(18th and 19th Centuries )

Head and shoulders portrait of Edwin Hall with brown, curly hair, wearing a dark blue coat, white shirt, and black neckcloth.

Charles Fraser was a painter of miniatures, portraits in oils, and landscapes. He spent most of his life in his native city of Charleston depicting its leading citizens. This miniature is not listed in his account book, nor being shown in the solo exhibition for Fraser held in 1857.

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[Inscription] Visible in window which previously contained hair now lost: Edwin Hall Boston.

Provenance
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Herbert Lawton [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; A.J. Fink, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; A.J. Fink Foundation, Baltimore, 1963, by bequest; Walters Art Museum, 1963, by gift.

Conservation

Date Description Narrative
1/15/1964 Treatment cleaned
6/1/1964 Treatment other
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USA (Place of Origin)

Measurements

H excluding frame: 2 1/2 x W: 2 in. (6.35 x 5.08 cm); Framed H: 2 5/8 x W: 2 1/8 in. (6.67 x 5.4 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of the A. Jay Fink Foundation, Inc., Baltimore, in memory of Abraham Jay Fink, 1963

Location in Museum

Not on view

Accession Number

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38.452

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