Collection Highlights
Thomas Cole (1801-1848)
Date:
ca. 1845
Object Number:
PR.012.2.885
Medium:
Daguerreotype
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Luce Center
George P. A. Healy (1813-1894)
Object Number:
1959.72
Date:
1842
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 x 24 3/4 in. ( 76.2 x 62.9 cm )
Marks:
signature and date: lower right: "Geo. P. A. Healy the 29th year of his life / City of Washington 1842"
Gallery Label:
Healy was one of the most successful portrait painters in Europe and America in the mid-19th century. He opened a studio in his native Boston about 1831, and went to Paris to study three years later, subsequently gaining an international reputation as a portraitist.
Credit Line:
Purchase, The Watson Fund
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
