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Exhibition History“Classical Taste in America, 1800-1840,” Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD, July 27 – October 26, 1993; Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC, December 20, 1993 – March 13, 1994; Museum of Fine Arts of Houston, Houston, TX, May 1 – July 24, 1994.
“American Treasures from the Fenimore Art Museum,” Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, FL, March 20 – May 11, 2004.
Artist
William Henry Powell
(1823 - 1879)
Related Person
Anna Pell
(1817 - 1899)
Anna Clarke Pell
Date1838
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsSight: 30 3/8 × 25 × 4 in. (77.2 × 63.5 × 10.2 cm)
Object numberN0283.1976
Credit LineCollection of the Fenimore Art Museum. Gift of Anne Hyde Choate Patterson
Photograph by Richard Walker
Label TextWilliam Henry Powell was an American artist who was born and died in New York City. He studied under artist Henry Inman in New York City prior to receiving a commission from the United States Congress in 1847 to paint the last large historical painting in the Capitol rotunda. Powell is known for a painting of the Battle of Lake Erie, of which one copy hangs in the Ohio state capitol building and the other, in the United States Capitol.Exhibition History“Classical Taste in America, 1800-1840,” Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD, July 27 – October 26, 1993; Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC, December 20, 1993 – March 13, 1994; Museum of Fine Arts of Houston, Houston, TX, May 1 – July 24, 1994.
“American Treasures from the Fenimore Art Museum,” Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, FL, March 20 – May 11, 2004.
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