H650: Judge John Lowell (1824-1897)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H650

People

William Morris Hunt, American (Brattleboro, VT 1824 - 1879 Isles of Shoals, NH)
Judge John Lowell (1824 - 1897)

Title

Judge John Lowell (1824-1897)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

1872

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/304999

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

79.4 x 92 cm (31 1/4 x 36 1/4 in.)
framed: 111.1 x 123.8 x 8.9 cm (43 3/4 x 48 3/4 x 3 1/2 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: l.l. WM Hunt /Aug. 1872

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

By descent through family; gift of the Estate of Ralph Lowell, 1978.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of the Estate of Ralph Lowell, 1978

Object Number

H650

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Exhibition of the Works of William Morris Hunt, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1880), cat. 60
• Helen Mary Knowlton, Art-Life of William Morris Hunt, Little, Brown & Company (Boston, MA, 1900), p. 49
• Memorial Exhibition of the Works of William Morris Hunt, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1924), cat. 27
• Henry Adams and Martha J. Hoppin, William Morris Hunt: A Memorial Exhibition, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1979), p. 50, cat. 15
• Sally Webster, William Morris Hunt 1824 - 1879, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, England, 1991), pp. 97-99, fig. 88
• Diana L. Eck, Hanging Around Lowell House: The Portraits of Lowell House, brochure (Cambridge, MA, 2012), p. 4, 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. 74, 274, cat. 221, ill.

Exhibition History

• Exhibition of the Works of William Morris Hunt, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 12/20/1879 - 01/31/1880
• Memorial Exhibition of the Works of William Morris Hunt, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 03/08/1924 - 03/31/1924
• William Morris Hunt: A Memorial Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 06/26/1979 - 08/19/1979

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