Portrait of Henry Walters
(18th and 19th Centuries )
In this posthumous portrait by the Baltimore born artist, Thomas Cromwell Corner, the founder of the Walters Art Museum, Henry Walters (1848-1931), is shown with three objects from his collection: a Mosan enamel plaque of the 12th century (44.101), a Limoges enamel reliquary of the 13th century (44.78), and a German brass statuette of St. Sebastian of the early 16th century (53.34). Henry is shown wearing the same stick-pin decorated with a Carthaginian stater that appears in another posthumous portrait commissioned from Frank O. Salisbury (37.2000). This stick-pin is now in the museum's collection (59.699).
When the portrait was unveiled at the museum on the evening of 27 January 1940, Henry Watson Kent gave a talk on "Henry Walters, the Collector" and Erwin Panofsky spoke on "The International Style of about 1400." Over three hunndred people were reported to have attended.
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Provenance
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Walters Art Museum, 1937, by commission from the artist.
Exhibitions
| 2014-2016 | From Rye to Raphael: The Walters Story. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. |
| 2012 | Touch and the Enjoyment of Sculpture: Exploring the Appeal of Renaissance Statuettes. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. |
| 1995 | The Allure of Bronze. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. |
Geographies
USA (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 45 11/16 x W: 38 9/16 in. (116 x 98 cm)
Credit Line
Commissioned from the artist, 1937
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
37.1682
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