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Bequest of Walter Phelps Warren, 1985.51.1, Connecticut Historical Society, No Known Copyright
Walter Phelps
Bequest of Walter Phelps Warren, 1985.51.1, Connecticut Historical Society, No Known Copyright

Walter Phelps

PainterPainted by Unknown
PainterAttributed to Waldo & Jewett American, 1820 - 1854
Dateabout 1820
MediumPainting; oil on panel in frame
DimensionsStretcher (height x width): 30 × 24 1/2in. (76.2 × 62.2cm)
Frame (height x with): 39 1/8 × 33in. (99.4 × 83.8cm)
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineBequeathed by Walter Phelps Warren
DescriptionQuarter-length portrait of Walter Phelps by an unknown artist in the style of Henry Inman. Phelps, facing half left, is a young man with dark hair and blue eyes. He is wearing a black jacket and a white cravat.
Object number1985.51.1
MarkingsLabel on back of frame: "Frame for portrait of / Walter Phelps / Property of / Walter Phelps Warren / 955 Lexington Ave. / New York, N.Y. 10021 / May 5, 1971"NotesConstituent note: When this painting was surveyed by WACC for conservation, Michael Heslip identified it as one of several that may have been done by Waldo & Jewett, based on "both style of treatment and the appearance of the textured ground."
Subject Terms
    On View
    Not on view
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    Unknown
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    Guy Rowland Phelps
    Russell Cheney
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    General Walter Booth, Jr.
    General Walter Booth Jr.
    about 1830
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    Thomas M. Smith
    Unknown
    about 1825
    Gift of the estate of Everett P. Tomlinson, 1989.161.0, Connecticut Museum of Culture and Histo…
    Gideon Tomlinson
    Unknown
    Gift of Dr. Lee J. Whittles, 1959.40.0, Connecticut Historical Society, No known copyright
    John White
    Unknown
    1881
    Gift of Mrs. Byard Williams, 1988.133.601, Connecticut Historical Society, Copyright Undetermin…
    Antoinette Phelps Cheney in Costume
    Horace Bushnell Cheney Sr.
    about 1917
    Phelps Hatheway House, Suffield, Connecticut. Gift of the Richard Welling Family, 2012.284.587…
    Phelps Hatheway House, Suffield
    Richard Welling
    after 1972
    Gift of Margaret Scott Rochford, 1974.87.2, Connecticut Historical Society, No known copyright
    Charles S. Banks
    Unknown
    Gift of Mrs. Byard Williams, 1988.85.58, Connecticut Museum of Culture and History, Copyright U…
    Antoinette Phelps Cheney
    Elite Studio
    about 1911
    1972.76.39 © 2001 The Connecticut Historical Society.
    Old Phelps Tavern, Albany Turnpike, West Hartford
    Unknown
    about 1900
    Museum purchase, 1977.51.2, Connecticut Historical Society, Copyright Undetermined
    Harriet Watson
    Unknown
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