2021.82: Vice Admiral Samuel Hood Linzee (1773-1820)
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2021.82
- People
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Unidentified Artist
- Title
- Vice Admiral Samuel Hood Linzee (1773-1820)
- Classification
- Paintings
- Work Type
- painting
- Date
- c. 1812-1820
- Culture
- British?
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/370653
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
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76 × 63 cm (29 15/16 × 24 13/16 in.)
frame: 93 × 80 × 8.2 cm (36 5/8 × 31 1/2 × 3 1/4 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- label: verso, top left of frame, red border, black ink: 3206 / H / 4.29.96
- label: verso, top left of frame, red border, black ink: Wiliam Amory / 7.
- inscription: verso, top left of frame, graphite: [illegible] 2 3/4
- label: versop, top stretcher, red border: [printed:] Museum of Fine Arts / [black ink:] Unknown / 89.30
- label: verso, top strecher, red border, black ink: William Amory / 7. frame
- inscription: verso, top stretcher, graphite: #1 RIGHT OF DOOR
- inscription: verso, top stretcher, graphite: 203 [encircled]
- label: verso, left side of frame, black ink: Amory Pictures / Admiral Smauel Hood Linzee / [illegible text]
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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Probably Samuel Hood Linzee; to his sister, Hannah Rowe (Linzee) Amory (1775-1845); to her son, William Amory I (1804-1888); to his wife, Anna Powell Mason Sears (1813-1895); to their sons in succession, William Amory II (1833-1907), Charles Walter "Ned" Amory (1842-1913) and Francis Inman Amory (1850-1921); to William Amory Gardner (1863-1930)[1]; to William Amory III (1869-1954); to his nephew, Thomas Jefferson Coolidge III (1893-1959); to his nephew Frederic Winthrop, Jr. (1906-1979); to John Linzee Coolidge (1937-); to his sister, Catherine Coolidge Lastavica, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2021
Notes
[1] William Amory Gardner is the grandson of William Amory I, the son of his daughter, Harriet Sears (Mrs. Joseph Peabody Gardner)
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Catherine Coolidge Lastavica
- Accession Year
- 2021
- Object Number
- 2021.82
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Jeannine Falino, Lives Shaped by the American Revolution: Portraits of a Boston Family, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 2005), pp. 62-63, cat. no. 6, repr. p. 63
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