Ambrose Lawrence (1816-1893) | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: H540
People: Thomas Bayley Lawson, American (Newburyport, MA 1807-1888 Lowell, MA)
Ambrose Lawrence (Boscawen, NH 1816-1893 Boston, MA)
Title: Ambrose Lawrence (1816-1893)
Classification: Paintings
Work Type: painting
Date: 1876
Places: Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/304984

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 76.5 x 63.5 cm (30 1/8 x 25 in.)
framed: 101.6 x 83.8 x 8.6 cm (40 x 33 x 3 3/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Susan M. Hill, niece of the sitter; her gift to the School of Dental Medicine, 1941.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Susan M. Hill to the School of Dental Medicine, 1941
Object Number: H540
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Frederick W. Coburn, Thomas Bayley Lawson: Portrait Painter of Newburyport and Lowell (Salem, MA, October 1947), p. 53
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. 333, cat. 296, ill.

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