H169: George Peabody (1795-1869)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H169

People

Lowes Cato Dickinson, English (Kilburn, England 1819 - 1908 London, England)
George Peabody (1795-1869)

Title

George Peabody (1795-1869)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

1868

Places

Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom

Culture

British

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/310912

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

sight: 140.2 x 109.7 cm (55 3/16 x 43 3/16 in.)
framed: 180.3 x 149.9 x 10.8 cm (71 x 59 x 4 1/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: l.l.: LCD/1868
• inscription: bottom of frame, wood, incised: GEORGE PEABODY /FOUNDER OF THE PEABODY MUSEUM/THIS PORTRAIT WAS PRESENTED TO/THE HON ROBERT C. WINTHROP BY HIS/FRIEND GEORGE PEABODY/GIFT OF THE HEIRS OF ROBERT C. WINTRHOP

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

George Peabody; Hon. Robert C. Winthrop; his bequest to Harvard University, 1895.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Bequest of the Hon. Robert C. Winthrop to Harvard University, 1895

Object Number

H169

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 107
• 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. 284

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