John Amory Lowell (1798-1881) | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: H514
People: George Peter Alexander Healy, American (Boston, MA 1813 - 1894 Chicago, IL)
John Amory Lowell (1798 - 1881)
Title: John Amory Lowell (1798-1881)
Classification: Paintings
Work Type: painting
Date: 1849
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/304979

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

sight: 132.7 x 101.6 cm (52 1/4 x 40 in.)
framed: 170.2 x 139.7 x 15.9 cm (67 x 55 x 6 1/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: l.r.:G.P.A. Healy / 1849
label: on verso: "JOHN AMORY LOWELL/ 1798-1881/ P. HEALY [?]"

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Gift of the estate of Abbott Lawrence Lowell, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of the Estate of Abbott Lawrence Lowell, 1943
Object Number: H514
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Diana L. Eck, Hanging Around Lowell House: The Portraits of Lowell House, brochure (Cambridge, MA, 2012), p. 3, ill.
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. 256, 461 cat. 205, ill.

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