Incorrect Username, Email, or Password
This object does not yet have a description.

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
Permissions

The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request.

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.

Verification Level

This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu