The Reverend Thomas Harvey Skinner

Samuel Finley Breese Morse (American, 1791–1872)

about 1836–37

Medium/TechniqueOil on paperboard

Dimensions74.93 x 63.18 cm (29 1/2 x 24 7/8 in.)

Credit LineGift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Paintings, 1815–1865

Accession number48.457

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InscriptionsReverse: This Portrait of the Revd Dr. Skinner, was painted by me/about the year 1836 or 1837 in the N. York city University/and presented to my friends Mr. & Mrs. Wainright/Saml F.B. Morse./ New York March. 1860ProvenanceThe artist; Mr. and Mrs. E. Wainwright, 1837; Frederic W. Rhinelander, Newport, R.I.; with Knoedler, New York, 1943; to Maxim Karolik, Newport, R.I., 1943; to MFA, 1948, gift of Maxim Karolik.