Contributed by Bowdoin College Museum of Art
Description
This portrait of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was commissioned by Bowdoin College where Longfellow studied and taught. This is one of the last portraits done of Longfellow for which he sat in person done in 1881.
About This Item
- Title: Portrait of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1881
- Creator: Ernest Longfellow
- Creation Date: 1881
- Subject Date: 1881
- Location: Cambridge, Middlesex County, MA
- Media: Oil on canvas
- Local Code: 1881.2
- Object Type: Image
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- Bowdoin College
- Poets--American
- Authors--American
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882--Portraits
- Longfellow, Ernest Wadsworth, 1845-1921
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Bowdoin College Museum of Art9400 College Station, Brunswick, ME 04011
(207) 725-3275
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