About the Artwork
Portrait of William H. Brearley
1884
Lewis Thomas Ives
1833-1894
American
Unknown
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)
Paintings
American Art before 1950
Gift of Mrs. William H. Brearley
96.1
Public Domain
Markings
Signed and dated, right side, above sitter's shoulder: L.T. Ives. | 1884
Provenance
by descent to the sitter's wife;1896-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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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.
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