The Winterthur Library

 The Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera

 

 

OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION

 

Creator:          Lawrence Park

Title:               Papers             

Dates:             1908-1923

Call No.:         Col. 96

Acc. No.:         72x359

Quantity:        2 boxes

Location:        17 C 5

 

 

 

BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT

 

Lawrence Park went to Harvard University from 1892 to 1896.  He was an architect by trade, but as an author he wrote on colonial art.  He was a non-resident curator in the Department of Colonial Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

 

 

SCOPE AND CONTENT

 

This collection deals almost exclusively with Gilbert Stuart.  Park corresponded with owners of paintings by Stuart and with Charles Henry Hart, a noted authority on art and the history of portraiture.  This correspondence concerns Stuart's subjects and their family genealogies, dimensions of portraits, their dates, and provenance.  Notes and biographical information on Stuart are also included.

 

Other colonial artists are also discussed in Park's correspondence, including Thomas Sully, John Singleton Copley, John Trumbull, Joseph Badger, John Smibert, Robert Feke, Jacob Eichholtz, Edward Greene Malbone, Rembrandt Peale, Charles Willson Peale, Ralph Earl, Washington Allston, and Mather Brown.

 

The Decorative Arts Photographic Collection (DAPC) houses the many photographs that came with these papers.

           

 

ORGANIZATION

           

The correspondence is arranged chronologically.

 

 

PROVENANCE

           

Gift of John G. Park and Mrs. George Skinner.

 

 

ACCESS POINTS

           

            People:

                        Sully, Thomas, 1783-1872

                        Copley, John Singleton, 1738-1815.

                        Trumbull, John, 1756-1843.

                        Badger, Joseph, 1708-1765.

                        Smibert, John, 1688-1751.

                        Feke, Robert, ca. 1705-1750.

                        Eichholtz, Jacob, 1776-1842.

                        Malbone, Edward Greene, 1777-1807.

                        Peale, Rembrandt, 1778-1860.

                        Peale, Charles Willson, 1741-1827.

                        Earl, Ralph, 1751-1801.

                        Allston, Washington, 1779-1843.

                        Brown, Mather, 1761-1831.

                        Stuart, Gilbert, 1755-1828.

                        Hart, Charles Henry, 1847-1918.

 

Topics:

            Painting, Colonial - United States.

            Painting - History - United States.

            Artists - United States.

            Painters - United States.

            Portrait painters - United States.

            Portraits - United States - Expertising.

            Correspondence.

            Clippings.

            Lists.

            Notes.

            Sketches.

            Articles.

            Portrait-painters.

            Artists.

           

 

 

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION

 

Location: 17 C 5

 

 

Folder titles:

 

Box 1:  Correspondence: 1908-May 1914

            Correspondence: June 1914-Dec. 1914

            Correspondence: Jan. 1915-May 1915

            Correspondence: June 1915-Dec. 1915

            Correspondence: 1916

            Correspondence: 1917

            Correspondence: 1918

            Correspondence: 1919-1923

            Correspondence: undated

 

Box 2:  Notes (4 folders)

            Material pertaining to Gilbert Stuart's life

            Duplicate copies of Gilbert Stuart pedigrees

            Articles on Gilbert Stuart

            Sketches of paintings

            Miscellaneous prints, postcards, and reproductions of portraits