A Portrait of Samuel Finley Attributed to John Hesselius

Through extensive primary source research, I was able to uncover evidence that strongly supports the attribution to Hesselius and assembled a more complete history of the picture and the family who owned it for almost two centuries before donating it to the Indianapolis Museum of Art in 1962. I have...

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Main Author: Megan Holloway Fort
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Language:English
Published: University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing 2017-05-01
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Online Access: https://journalpanorama.org/article/a-portrait-of-samuel-finley-attributed-to-john-hesselius/
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description Through extensive primary source research, I was able to uncover evidence that strongly supports the attribution to Hesselius and assembled a more complete history of the picture and the family who owned it for almost two centuries before donating it to the Indianapolis Museum of Art in 1962. I have also unraveled the relationship between this portrait and an 1870 copy by the little-known American painter Charles Walker Lind (c. 1842–c. 1880).
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