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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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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spelling | doaj.art-fe6680b9004c42448cba06dd1fbd529b2022-12-22T04:23:35ZengUniversity of Minnesota Libraries PublishingPanorama2471-68392017-05-0131https://doi.org/10.24926/24716839.1592A Portrait of Samuel Finley Attributed to John HesseliusMegan Holloway FortThrough 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). https://journalpanorama.org/article/a-portrait-of-samuel-finley-attributed-to-john-hesselius/ 3.1eighteenth-century artjohn hesseliusmegan holloway fortsamuel finley |
spellingShingle | Megan Holloway Fort A Portrait of Samuel Finley Attributed to John Hesselius Panorama 3.1 eighteenth-century art john hesselius megan holloway fort samuel finley |
title | A Portrait of Samuel Finley Attributed to John Hesselius |
title_full | A Portrait of Samuel Finley Attributed to John Hesselius |
title_fullStr | A Portrait of Samuel Finley Attributed to John Hesselius |
title_full_unstemmed | A Portrait of Samuel Finley Attributed to John Hesselius |
title_short | A Portrait of Samuel Finley Attributed to John Hesselius |
title_sort | portrait of samuel finley attributed to john hesselius |
topic | 3.1 eighteenth-century art john hesselius megan holloway fort samuel finley |
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