H89: Francis Bowen (1811-1890)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H89

People

Edwin Tryon Billings, American (So. Deerfield, MA 1824 - 1893 Dorchester or Brookline, MA)
Francis Bowen (1811 - 1890)

Title

Francis Bowen (1811-1890)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

1891

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/304575

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

76.2 x 63.5 cm (30 x 25 in.)
framed: 96.8 x 84.8 x 13.3 cm (38 1/8 x 33 3/8 x 5 1/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: l.l.: Ebillings

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Commissioned by Arabella Stuart Bowen (Mrs. Francis Bowen), 1891; her gift to Harvard College, 1891.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Mrs. Francis Bowen to Harvard College, 1891

Object Number

H89

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• William Garrott Brown, A List of Portraits in the Various Buildings of Harvard University, Harvard University Library (Cambridge, MA, 1898), p. 9
• Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 23
• Samuel Eliot Morison, Three Centuries of Harvard, 1636-1936, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), pp. 290-293, 307-308
• Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Melissa Renn, American Paintings at Harvard, Volume One: Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels by Artists Born before 1826, Yale University Press (U.S.) and Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge and New Haven, 2014), pp. 92-93, cat. 44, ill.

Exhibition History

• Billings Memorial Exhibit, Unity Art Club, 01/01/1894 - 12/31/1894

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