1943.126: Detail of Portrait of Benjamin West, after Lawrence

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1943.126

People

Unidentified Artist
Previously attributed to Washington Allston, American (Georgetown, SC 1779 - 1843 Cambridge, MA)
After Thomas Lawrence, English (Bristol, England 1769 - 1830 London, England)

Title

Detail of Portrait of Benjamin West, after Lawrence

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

after 1821

Culture

British

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/230269

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

74.93 x 62.87 cm (29 1/2 x 24 3/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

[Unidentified auction house, England][1] [Plaza Auction Galleries, New York] sold; to [Albert Duveen, New York], 1940. [Martin Birnbaum] sold; to Grenville L. Winthrop, 1942, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943

[1] per correspondence with Duveen

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.126

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Dorothy W. Gillerman, ed., Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1969), p. 238
• Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), p. 115

Exhibition History

• Our Heritage: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Graphic Art, National Academy of Design, New York, 01/08/1942 - 02/07/1942

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