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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.928
People
Alfred George Stevens, British (Blandford, England 1817 - 1875 London, England)
Title
Leonard W. Collmann (1816-1881)
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Portrait of Leonard W. Collman, Architect
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1854
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230135

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
71.3 x 56 cm (28 1/16 x 22 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: on back of stretcher, handwritten in black ink: 34
  • inscription: on back of stretcher, handwritten in graphite: Mrs. Harris
  • label: on back of stretcher, handwritten label: Leonard Collman / by Alfred Stevens / Owner Charles Shannon R.A.
  • label: on back of frame, handwritten label: Leonard Collman / by Alfred Stevens / Owner Charles Shannon R.A.
  • (not assigned): on back of stretcher, stencilled in black: 63SBG
  • inscription: on back of frame, handwritten in graphite: 12-76
  • inscription: on back of frame in white chalk: #2Y
  • inscription: on back of stretcher, in graphite: 732 [over] 9
  • label: on back of frame, printed in black ink: 18

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Mrs. Collman, the wife of the sitter, by descent; to Mrs. S. J. Harris, her daughter, 1912, sold; to Charles Haslewood Shannon and Charles Ricketts, sold [via Martin Birnbaum]; to Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York, 1929, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.928
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Hugh Stannus, Alfred Stevens and His Work, Autotype Co. (London, England, 1891), pp. 14-15, paragraphs 129-130, repr. in b/w plate XXVI
  • Kenneth Romney Towndrow, "A Lost Portrait by Alfred Stevens", Apollo (August 1947), p. 48, ill.
  • Kenneth Romney Towndrow, The Works of Alfred Stevens, Sculptor-Painter-Designer in the Tate Gallery (London, England, 1950), mentioned under no. 103, p. 74
  • 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), p. 130; repr. as no. 64

Exhibition History

  • Loan Collection of Works by Alfred Stevens, Tate Britain, London, 11/15/1911 - 01/15/1912
  • Loan Collection, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, 04/01/1912 - 06/30/1912

Verification Level

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