TitleElihu Vedder
Artist
William Henry Furness, Jr.
(American, 1827 - 1867)
Daten.d.
MediumOil on canvas mounted on panel
DimensionsUnframed: 27 7/8 × 24 in.
SubmissionANA diploma presentation, May 11, 1864
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY
Object number1487-P
Label TextVedder recalled the execution of this portrait in his 1910 autobiography: "[In Boston's Studio Building] I formed a friendship with William Furness, also a portrait-painter, whose early death was such a loss. He painted my portrait for the Academy, to go among the portraits of the Academicians; posing me with my back to the light, my yellow hair gave much the effect that [Walter Savage] Landor complained of, as I have been told,-the only resemblance between us I fancy." The effect referred to was that of a nimbus, or halo.
