Object Details
- Local Numbers
- FSA A.01 12.03.11
- Collector
- Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919
- Names
- Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919
- Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894
- Thayer, Abbott Handerson, 1849-1921
- Collection Creator
- Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919
- Collector
- Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919
- See more items in
- Charles Lang Freer Papers
- Charles Lang Freer Papers / Series 12: Photographs / 12.3: Portraits of Others
- Biographical / Historical
- Abbott Handerson Thayer was born in Boston and studied painting in Paris at the École des Beaux-Arts. Thayer had a successful career as a painter of landscapes and figures, being most notable for his depictions of winged women. Stevenson Memorial was painted as a remembrance of the writer Robert Louis Stevenson. The painting is currently in the Smithsonian American Art Museum (1929.6.127).
- Extent
- 1 Item (photographic print)
- Date
- ca. 1903
- Archival Repository
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
- Identifier
- FSA.A.01, Item FSA A.01 12.03.11
- Type
- Archival materials
- Portraits
- Photographs
- Collection Citation
- Charles Lang Freer Papers. FSA A.01. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of the estate of Charles Lang Freer.
- Arrangement
- Stored in one box.
- Collection Rights
- Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.
- Genre/Form
- Portraits -- Men
- Photographs
- Scope and Contents
- Small black and white print of American painter Abbott Handerson Thayer with the painting "Stevenson Memorial. The photograph was likely presented by Thayer to his patron Charles Lang Freer.
- Collection Restrictions
- Collection is open for research.
- Record ID
- ebl-1585218689097-1585218689861-1
