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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H540
People
Thomas Bayley Lawson, American (Newburyport, MA 1807-1888 Lowell, MA)
Ambrose Lawrence (Boscawen, NH 1816-1893 Boston, MA)
Title
Ambrose Lawrence (1816-1893)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1876
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/304984

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
76.5 x 63.5 cm (30 1/8 x 25 in.)
framed: 101.6 x 83.8 x 8.6 cm (40 x 33 x 3 3/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Susan M. Hill, niece of the sitter; her gift to the School of Dental Medicine, 1941.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of Susan M. Hill to the School of Dental Medicine, 1941
Object Number
H540
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Frederick W. Coburn, Thomas Bayley Lawson: Portrait Painter of Newburyport and Lowell (Salem, MA, October 1947), p. 53
  • 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), p. 333, cat. 296, ill.

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