Abbott Handerson Thayer with the painting "Stevenson Memorial,"
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: FSA A.01 12.03.11
name: label: Collector
content: Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919
label: Names
content: Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919
label: Names
content: Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894
label: Names
content: Thayer, Abbott Handerson, 1849-1921
label: Collection Creator
content: Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919
creator: label: Collector
content: Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919
setName: label: See more items in
content: Charles Lang Freer Papers
label: See more items in
content: Charles Lang Freer Papers / Series 12: Photographs / 12.3: Portraits of Others
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Abbott Handerson Thayer was born in Boston and studied painting in Paris at the École des Beaux-Arts.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).
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Item (photographic print)
unitdate: label: Date
content: ca. 1903
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: FSA.A.01, Item FSA A.01 12.03.11
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Portraits
label: Type
content: Photographs
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Stored in one box.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Portraits -- Men
label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: 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.