Portrait of William H. Brearley

Lewis Thomas Ives American, 1833-1894
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About the Artwork

Portrait of William H. Brearley

1884

Lewis Thomas Ives

1833-1894

American

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Oil on preprimed canvas

Unframed: 28 × 23 inches (71.1 × 58.4 cm) Framed: 39 1/2 × 34 1/2 × 3 5/8 inches (100.3 × 87.6 × 9.2 cm)

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American Art before 1950

Gift of Mrs. William H. Brearley

96.1

Public Domain

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Signed and dated, right side, above sitter's shoulder: L.T. Ives. | 1884

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by descent to the sitter's wife;
1896-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Supplement to the Handbook of Paintings Belonging to the Detroit Museum of Art. Detroit, 1907, p. 15, no. 92.

Handbook of Modern Paintings Belonging to the Detroit Museum of Art. Detroit, 1910, p. 24, no. 136.

Pattinson, James William. “The Detroit Museum of Art.” Fine Arts Journal 25, no. 2 (August 1911): pp. 68-69.

Burroughs, Clyde H. “Painting and Sculpture in Michigan.” Michigan History Magazine 21 (1937): pp. 39-44.

“Alger House Exhibition of Portraits of Prominent Detroiters.” Bulletin of the DIA 17, no. 6 (March 1938): pp. 55-56.

Who Was Who in America. Chicago, 1966, p. 133.

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Lewis Thomas Ives, Portrait of William H. Brearley, 1884, oil on preprimed canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. William H. Brearley, 96.1.

Portrait of William H. Brearley
Portrait of William H. Brearley