Colonel John Lee (1695-1761) | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1965.542
People: Allan Ramsay, British (Edinburgh, Scotland 1713 - 1784 Dover, England)
Title: Colonel John Lee (1695-1761)
Classification: Paintings
Work Type: painting
Date: 1744
Culture: British
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/228347

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

77.5 x 64.6 cm (30 1/2 x 25 7/16 in.)
framed: 94 x 81.3 cm (37 x 32 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: A. Ramsay 1744

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: David Rockefeller, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1965

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of David Rockefeller
Accession Year: 1965
Object Number: 1965.542
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)
Alastair Smart, Allan Ramsey: A Complete Catalogue of his Paintings, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT, 1999), no. 308, fig. 177

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