Robert Lindley (1776-1855)
William Beechey, English, 1753 - 1839
about 1810
Oil on canvas
Overall: 81 × 57 1/4 in. (205.7 × 145.4 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Irving S. Manheimer
P.959.35
Geography
Place Made: England, United Kingdom, Europe
Period
19th century
Object Name
Painting
Research Area
Painting
Not on view
Inscriptions
P.961.256. Label, on reverse: Maison Pottier, Ch. Pottier, Specialite pour Tableaux et Objets D'Art, 14 rue Gailbon (in graphite on label: 703); label, on reverse: Sir W. Beechey Robert Lindley 2920 (beside it, in blue crayon: 2920); label, on reverse: 52; label, on reverse: N83418 Ct. p1 (in graphite: 244) (Schweitzer business card on back)
Exhibition History
Carpenter Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1978-?.
Director's Choice, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 10-July 10, 1966.
European Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, William B. Jaffe and Evelyn A. Jaffe Hall Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 30, 2008-March 8, 2009.
European Paintings from the College Collection, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 13-October 6, 1974.
Portraits at Dartmouth, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 10-April 16, 1978.
The Dartmouth Collection: 19th & 20th Century Paintings, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 17-November 6, 1982.
Publication History
Arthur R. Blumenthal, Portraits at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1978, no. 40, p. 49.
Advertisement for Schweitzer Gallery, May 1957, "Antiques", vol. 71, p. 424.
Richard Leppert, "The Musician of the Imagination", in William Weber, Editor, The Musician as Entrepeneur, 1700-1914: Managers, Charlatans, and Idealists, Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2004, pp. 29-35, ill. p. 30.
Richard Leppert, "The Musiciam of the Imagination" in Sound Judgement: Selected Essays, Contemporary Thinkers on Critical Musicolgy, Aldershot, Hampshire, GU11 3HR, United Kingdom and Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing, 2007, ill. p.31.
T. Barton Thurber, European Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2008, pp. 80-81, ill. pp. 80/81, no. 35.
Provenance
Baron Lazzarroni, Nice, France (died 1934); M. R. Schweitzer, [Meyer (Mac) R. Schweitzer, 1911-2006], New York, 1958; Irving S. Manheimer, New York; given to present collection, 1959.
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