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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2021.82
People
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
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
  • 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
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
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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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