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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2023.486
People
Benjamin Greenleaf, American (Hull 1769 - 1821 Weymouth)
Title
Susannah Wallis Dupee
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1818
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/381071

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Reverse painting on glass
Dimensions
frame: 52 × 39.7 × 6 cm (20 1/2 × 15 5/8 × 2 3/8 in.)
44.5 × 31.8 cm (17 1/2 × 12 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • label: lower left, on glass, typed: SUSANNAH WALLIS / Born August 11, 1772. / Wife of Isaac Dupee / Married April 2, 1796.
  • label: verso, lower left, typed: Mother has gone to a better land / Where pain and death are unknown / She lingered long with her family band / Until her prayers called her home. / Copied by Frederick Allen Howell at Wayland, Mass. / Aug. 29, 1967 / This and the picture of Isaac Dupee were give us by Uncle Herbert Dupee Allen. [on right, blue ink:] Frederick A Howell
  • label: verso, lower center, typed: Boston August 31st, 1818 Friend St. / This likeness was taken by Mr. Benj. Greenleaf / for Susanna Dupee, wife of Isaac Dupee aged 46 / the 11th of the above date. / copied by Isaac D. Allen, March 17, 1992 at / Newton, Mass. / Recopied by Frederick Allen Howell, Aug. 29, 1967 / at 12 Orchard Lane, Wayland, Mass.
  • label: verso, lower right, typed: SUSANNA WALLIS / Born August 11, 1772 / Wife of Isaac Dupee / Married April 2, 1796 / Copy of note on front of / picture made by F. A. / Howell on 8/29/1967
  • inscription: verso, upper center, stationery with black ink inscription: Herbert D. Allen / Brookline, Mass, June 6, 1951 / History / This is a likeness of Susanne Dupee / wife of Isaac Dupee of Boston. This picture and that of Isaac Dupee were / left to a daughter Harriet Dupee Allen / wife of Ezra Allen (who was in the Dry / Goods business in Boston (see Boston Business /Directory for 1848) Ezra Allen later went to South / Hadley Mass engaged in paper making, / later went to Pawtucket R. I. in Dry Goods business, / later to Boston again in retail small wares & / notions) to Isaac Dupee Allen her son left to / Annie Luthera (Allen) Howell of Newtonville by him / in his will. She did not care for them / particularly & gave them to Herbert Dupee Allen / (thats me.). Isaac Dupee said to have been the / first clerk of Faneuil Hall Market Corporation. / Isaac Dupee Allen in business at 21 Winter St / Boston 1871 - 1898 when he died.Business carried on / by his sons Herbert & Fred at the same location.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Isaac and Susannah Wallis Dupee, Boston, by descent; to Harriet Dupee Allen (their daughter), by descent; to her son, Isaac Dupee Allen, by descent; to his daughter, Annie Luthera (Allen) Howell, Newtonville, MA, gift; to Herbert Dupee Allen, Brookline, MA, by descent; to Frederick Allen Howell, by descent; to his children, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2023

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of the Howell Family Trust
Accession Year
2023
Object Number
2023.486
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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