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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H649
People
Jacob H. Lazarus, American (New York, NY 1822 - 1891 New York, NY)
John Amory Lowell (1798 - 1881)
Title
John Amory Lowell (1798-1881)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1882
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/305018

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
81.3 x 68.6 cm (32 x 27 in.)
framed: 106.1 x 92.7 x 8.9 cm (41 3/4 x 36 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.l. JHLazarus/1882

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
By descent to Ralph Lowell, great-grandson of the sitter; his gift to Harvard University, 1978.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of the Estate of Ralph Lowell, 1978
Object Number
H649
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Ferris Greenslet, The Lowells and Their Seven Worlds (Boston, MA, 1946), opp. 229
  • Edward Weeks, The Lowells and Their Institute (Boston, MA, 1966), opp. 78
  • 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), p. 334, cat. 297, ill.

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