Photo: © President and Fellows of Harvard College
Amos Adams Lawrence
Alternate title: Amos Adams Lawrence (1814–1886)
53 x 36 7/8 in. (134.6 x 93.7 cm)
Signed and dated lower left: E. Johnson/1887 [As in other Johnson paintings of the 1880s and 1890s, the date has a flat top]
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of friends of Amos Lawrence to Harvard University (H190)
Hills, 2021: It is unusual for Johnson to portray an adult in a winter landscape.
Brass plate on frame: AMOS ADAMS LAWRENCE/1814–1886/BY E. JOHNSON/GIFT TO HARVARD UNIVERSITY BY/FRIENDS OF MR. LAWRENCE
The Harvard Corporation, c. 1887 (by commission)
Brown, William Garrott. A List of Portraits in the Various Buildings of Harvard University. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Library, 1898, p. 26.
Huntsinger 1936
Huntsinger, Laura M. Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1936, p. 85.
Baur, John I. H. An American Genre Painter: Eastman Johnson, 1824–1906. Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, 1940. Exhibition catalogue (1939 Brooklyn Museum), p. 70, no. 220, as Amos Adams Lawrence.
Sitter: Lawrence, Amos Adams
Amos Adams Lawrence (1814–1896).
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Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Amos Adams Lawrence, 1887 (Hills no. 31.1.116)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. https://www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=583 (accessed on February 2, 2023).