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Bust of William Thompson Walters
1867
The Walters Art Museum
Baltimore, United States
Rinehart, the son of a Carroll County farmer, enrolled at the Maryland Institute in Baltimore. Later, he found employment at a local marble yard carving fireplace mantles. In 1855, Rinehart visited Italy for the first time but returned briefly to Baltimore to open a studio. However, with the financial backing of his life-long friend and patron William T. Walters, he returned to Italy and opened his permanent studio in Rome.
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- Title: Bust of William Thompson Walters
- Creator: William Henry Rinehart (American, 1825-1874)
- Date Created: 1867
- External Link: For more information about this and thousands of other works of art in the Walters Art Museum collection, please visit art.thewalters.org
- Roles: Artist: William Henry Rinehart (American, 1825-1874)
- Provenance: William T. Walters, Baltimore, 1867, by commission; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
- Object Type: portraits; busts
- Medium: white marble
- Inscriptions: [Signature] "Wm.H.Rinehart Roma 1867"
- Exhibitions: Rinehart's Studio: Rough Stone to Living Marble. 2015., From Rye to Raphael: The Walters Story. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. 2014-2016., Millet and Barbizon Art. Matsumoto City Museum, Matsumoto City; Tokuyama City Museum of Art and History, Tokuyama; Kasama Nichido Museum, Kasama City; Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art, Kanazawa. 1996., The Allure of Bronze. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1995., Triumph of French Painting: Masterpieces from Ingres to Matisse. Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore; Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa; Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach; Dayton Art Institute, Dayton; Royal Academy of Arts, London; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo. 2000-2002., The Taste of Maryland: Art Collecting in Maryland 1800-1934. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1984.
- Dimensions: H: 21 11/16 x W: 14 3/4 x D: 9 11/16 in. (55.1 x 37.5 x 24.6 cm)
- Credit Line: Commissioned by William T. Walters, 1867
- Classification: Sculpture
- Accession Number: 28.9
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