H647: Judge John Lowell (1743-1802)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

H647

People

John Johnston, American (Boston, MA c. 1753 - 1818 Boston, MA)
Judge John Lowell (1743-1802)

Title

Judge John Lowell (1743-1802)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

c. 1800

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/304992

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

76.3 x 63.5 cm (30 1/16 x 25 in.)
framed: 92.1 x 79.1 x 7.8 cm (36 1/4 x 31 1/8 x 3 1/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Probably to Lowell's third wife, Rebecca Tyng Lowell (1747-1816); to his son, John Lowell (1769-1840); to John Amory Lowell (1798-1881); to Judge John Lowell (1824-1897); to John Lowell III (b. 1856); to Ralph Lowell (1890-1978); gift of his Estate to Harvard University, 1978.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of the Estate of Ralph Lowell, 1978

Object Number

H647

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Historical Records Survey, Division of Professional and Service Projects, Works Progress Administration, American Portraits, 1620-1825, found in Massachusetts, Volumes 1 and 2, Historical Records Survey (Boston, MA, 1939), p. 251, cat. 1347
• Diana L. Eck, Hanging Around Lowell House: The Portraits of Lowell House, brochure (Cambridge, MA, 2012), p. 1, 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. 316-17, 461, cat. 280, ill.

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