H427: Belinda Lull Randall (1816-1897)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H427

People

Attributed to Cephas Giovanni Thompson, American (Middleboro, MA 1809 - 1888 New York, NY)
Belinda Lull Randall (1816-1897)
Previously attributed to Moses Wight, American (Boston, MA 1827 - 1895 Paris, France)

Title

Belinda Lull Randall (1816-1897)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

c. 1840

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/304792

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

90.2 x 73 cm (35 1/2 x 28 3/4 in.)
framed: 114.3 x 127 x 8.9 cm (45 x 50 x 3 1/2 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• plaque: "BELINDA LULL RANDALL, 1816-1897/ Benefactor/ Style of Moses White"
• label: on verso: Fogg Art Museum/Loan/2677

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Bequest from Belinda Lull Randall to Mrs. Robert Boyd Storer, 1897; descended in family, 1907; gift of Storer family to Harvard, c. 1930.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of the family of Mrs. Robert Boyd Storer

Object Number

H427

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 114
• 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. 475-76, cat. 440, ill.

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