George Martin Lane (1823-1897) | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: H701
People: James Carroll Beckwith, American (Hannibal, MO 1852 - 1917 New York, NY)
George Martin Lane (Charlestown, Massachusetts 1823 - 1897 Cambridge, Massachusetts)
Title: George Martin Lane (1823-1897)
Classification: Paintings
Work Type: painting
Date: 1889
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/305149

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

56.5 x 45.7 cm (22 1/4 x 18 in.)
framed: 83.8 x 72.7 x 12.7 cm (33 x 28 5/8 x 5 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: u.r.: Carroll Beckwith / '89
inscription: upper left of canvas, in artist's hand: Prof Lane

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Presumably George Martin Lane, 1889; by descent to his granddaughter Katherine Lane Weems; her bequest to Harvard University, 1989.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard University Portrait Collection, Bequest of Katharine Lane Weems, 1989
Object Number: H701
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

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. 42, cat. 19, ill.

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