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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H103
People
Anna Lea Merritt, American (Philadelphia, PA 1844 - 1930 London, England)
James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)
Title
James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1882
Places
Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/304591

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
sight: 113 x 82.6 cm (44 1/2 x 32 1/2 in.)
framed: 146.1 x 116.8 x 12.1 cm (57 1/2 x 46 x 4 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r.: Anna Lea Merritt, 1882

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Gift of Anna Lea Merritt to Harvard University, 1891.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Anna Lea Merritt to Harvard University, 1891
Object Number
H103
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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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. 28
  • Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 92, ill. p. 93
  • American Peoples Encyclopedia, Spencer Press, Inc. (Chicago, IL, 1946)
  • Galina Gorokhoff, Love Locked Out: Memoirs of Anna Lea Merritt with a Checklist of Her Works, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1981), pl. 14
  • Galina Gorokhoff, "Anna Lea Merritt, Expatriate American Painter", The Magazine Antiques (1983), vol. 123, no. 6, pp. 1221-27, p. 1223, fig. 3
  • 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. 224-25, cat. 173, ill.

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