Harvard Art Museums > 1948.15.9: Study for the Portrait of George Dudley Seymour Paintings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Study for the Portrait of George Dudley Seymour (Cecilia Beaux) , 1948.15.9,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Dec 23, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/229528. This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1948.15.9 People Cecilia Beaux, American (Philadelphia, PA 1855 - 1942 Philadelphia, PA) Title Study for the Portrait of George Dudley Seymour Classification Paintings Work Type painting Date 1924-1925 Places Creation Place: North America, United States Culture American Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/229528 Physical Descriptions Medium Oil on artist's board Dimensions 28.8 x 19.3 cm (11 5/16 x 7 5/8 in.) Inscriptions and Marks inscription: back of board, blue ink, in artist's hand: [written on Frost & Adams label:] George Dudley Seymour Esq. / C.B. label: back of board, paper: ACADEMY B[ ] / Artists', Engineers' and [ ] / Instruments and S[ ] / ALL PYROGRAPHY RE[ ] / FROST & ADAMS [ ] / 37 CORNHILL, BOSTON Provenance Recorded Ownership History By descent from the artist to her nephew, Dr. Cecil K. Drinker; his gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1948. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Dr. Cecil K. Drinker Accession Year 1948 Object Number 1948.15.9 Division European and American Art Contact am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Descriptions Description The finished portrait is at the Wadsworth Athenaeum. Publication History The Paintings and Drawings of Cecilia Beaux, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Philadelphia, PA, 1955), p. 95 Elizabeth M. Kornhauser, American Paintings before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT, 1996), vol. I, repr. p. 88, under no. 20 Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, ed., American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008), p. 40, cat. no. 17 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
