2021.76: Hannah Rowe Linzee (Mrs. Thomas Coffin Amory I) (1775-1845)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2021.76

People

Attributed to John Johnston, American (Boston, MA c. 1753 - 1818 Boston, MA)

Title

Hannah Rowe Linzee (Mrs. Thomas Coffin Amory I) (1775-1845)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

1795

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/370652

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

35 × 28 cm (13 3/4 × 11 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: verso, top of stretcher, black ink: 32635.7
• label: verso, top: DOLL & RICHARDS, INC. / 140 NEWBURY STREET BOSTON, MASS. / PAINTINGS WATER COLORS / ETCHINGS COLOR PRINTS / PAINTINGS RESTORED CORRECT FRAMING / No. [graphite:] C47171
• inscription: verso, top of canvas, black ink: Hannah Rowe Linzee b. / M. Thomas C. Amory April 1795
• inscription: verso, bottom, graphite: 4345c[?]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Yard sale, Hamilton, Massachusetts; to Donald E. Costin, Salem, 1976; to Catherine Coolidge Lastavica, c. 1976, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2021

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Catherine Coolidge Lastavica

Accession Year

2021

Object Number

2021.76

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• John William Linzee, The Lindesie and Limesi Families of Great Britain (Boston, 1917), vol. 2, repr. opp. p. 604
• Jeannine Falino, Lives Shaped by the American Revolution: Portraits of a Boston Family, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 2005), pp. 74-76, cat. no. 11, repr. p. 75

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