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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1965.543
People
Allan Ramsay, British (Edinburgh, Scotland 1713 - 1784 Dover, England)
Title
Mary Browne Lee ( Mrs. John Lee)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1759
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/311615

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
76.3 x 63.8 cm (30 1/16 x 25 1/8 in.)
framed: 93.7 x 81.4 x 6.8 cm (36 7/8 x 32 1/16 x 2 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.l.: A. Ramsay/1755
  • label: plaque "MARY BROWNE/ WIFE OF COLONEL JOHN LEE/ ALLAN RAMSAY "

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of David Rockefeller
Accession Year
1965
Object Number
1965.543
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • 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)
  • Xavier Salmon, "Nattier, ambassadeur de l'élégance française", Dossier de l'Art (November 1999), no. 62, pp. 20-33, p. 33, repr. in b/w
  • Alastair Smart, Allan Ramsey: A Complete Catalogue of his Paintings, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT, 1999), cat. no. 310; repr. as fig. 497

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