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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H514
People
George Peter Alexander Healy, American (Boston, MA 1813 - 1894 Chicago, IL)
John Amory Lowell (1798 - 1881)
Title
John Amory Lowell (1798-1881)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1849
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/304979

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
sight: 132.7 x 101.6 cm (52 1/4 x 40 in.)
framed: 170.2 x 139.7 x 15.9 cm (67 x 55 x 6 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r.:G.P.A. Healy / 1849
  • label: on verso: "JOHN AMORY LOWELL/ 1798-1881/ P. HEALY [?]"

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Gift of the estate of Abbott Lawrence Lowell, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of the Estate of Abbott Lawrence Lowell, 1943
Object Number
H514
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Diana L. Eck, Hanging Around Lowell House: The Portraits of Lowell House, brochure (Cambridge, MA, 2012), p. 3, ill.
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Melissa Renn, American Paintings at Harvard, Volume One: Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels by Artists Born before 1826, Yale University Press (U.S.) and Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge and New Haven, 2014), pp. 256, 461 cat. 205, ill.

Verification Level

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