Papers, ca. 1904-1921.

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Papers, ca. 1904-1921.

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Background material on early American portrait-painters collected in 2 manuscript volumes: "Early American artists and their works" and "Portraits with descriptive and biographical lists: John Smibert, 1688-1751." Other artists include Joseph Badger, Robert Feke, and Gilbert Stuart. Each volume contains bound notes as well as loose correspondence, notes, sketches and photographs providing information about artists, sitters, and portraits. Includes manuscript essay on Joseph Blackburn. A small collection of lantern slides and glass negatives, mostly photographs of early American paintings, has been moved to the photograph collection.

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Massachusetts Historical Society

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Massachusetts Historical Society

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Blackburn, Joseph, active 1753-1763

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Park, Lawrence, 1873-1924

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Lawrence Park attended Harvard University from 1892 to 1896 and was a practicing architect, beginning his career in Boston in 1901. As an author he wrote about colonial art. Park served as a non-resident curator in the Department of Colonial Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art. From the description of Papers, 1908-1923. (Winterthur Library). WorldCat record id: 84665456 Lawrence Park (1873-1924) of Worcester and Groton, Mass., author and authority on American portraiture, wor...

Feke, Robert, approximately 1705-1750

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Smibert, John, 1688-1751

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Artist. From the description of Journal of John Smibert, 1719-1733. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71068467 ...

Badger, Joseph, 1708-1765

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Joseph Badger (1757-1846) was the first Christian missionary sent to the Western Reserve by the Connecticut Missionary Society. He founded the first Congregational church in the Western Reserve in Austinburg, Ohio. He is believed to be the first minister to deliver a sermon in Cleveland, Ohio. He attended Yale University and was ordained in 1786. After serving as a minister in Massachusetts, he arrived in the Western Reserve in 1800 to minister to both Congregationalists and Presbyt...

Stuart, Gilbert, 1755-1828

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