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Edwin Hall of Boston
Charles Fraser (American, 1782-1860) (?)ca. 1820
The Walters Art Museum
Baltimore, United States
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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- Title: Edwin Hall of Boston
- Creator: Charles Fraser (American, 1782-1860) (?)
- Date Created: ca. 1820
- Subject Keywords: male portraits
- 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: Charles Fraser (American, 1782-1860) (?)
- Provenance: 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.
- Object Type: miniatures (paintings); portraits
- Medium: watercolor on ivory
- Inscriptions: [Inscription] Visible in window which previously contained hair now lost: Edwin Hall Boston.
- Dimensions: 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
- Classification: Miniatures
- Accession Number: 38.452
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