Adam Mortimer Lightner letters
name: label: Creator
content: Lightner, Adam Mortimer, fl. 1838-1840
place: label: Place
content: Rome (Italy) -- Description and Travel
topic: label: Occupation
content: Portrait painters
label: Occupation
content: Painters
label: Topic
content: Painting
label: Topic
content: Portrait painting
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Albert Hise of the Massillon Museum came across the letters at a sale of the household effects of a family that came to Canton, Oh. from Lancaster, Penn. about 1900. In correspondence of the Archives of American Art, Hise writes "I am sorry I didn't buy the portrait of his [Lightner] grandmother as it sold for only 40.00 dollars and was a creditable piece of work--I hadn't read the letter or perhaps I would have." Only the typescripts have been microfilmed.
creator: label: Creator
content: Lightner, Adam Mortimer, fl. 1838-1840
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Portrait painter from Lancaster, Pa. Was active from 1838-1840.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Items ((on partial microfilm reel))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1840 Jan.18-19
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.lighadam
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Typescripts: 35mm microfilm reel 3091 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Letters with typescript from Lightner to his uncle John C. Duchman and to his grandmother Duchman relating the struggles and the impressions of a young poor American artist living in Rome.