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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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