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Albert Bierstadt: Lake Lucerne  wikidata:Q20188398 reasonator:Q20188398
Artist
Albert Bierstadt  (1830–1902)  wikidata:Q77132
 
Albert Bierstadt
Alternative names
Bierstadt
Description German-American painter, photographer, architectural draftsperson and scenographer
Date of birth/death 7 January 1830 Edit this at Wikidata 18 February 1902 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Solingen New York City
Work location
New Bedford, New York City, Irvington, New York, California
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q77132

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Title
Lake Lucerne
title QS:P1476,en:"Lake Lucerne"
label QS:Len,"Lake Lucerne"
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Genre landscape art Edit this at Wikidata
Date 1858
date QS:P571,+1858-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 1,829 mm (72 in); width: 3,048 mm (10 ft)
dimensions QS:P2048,1829U174789
dimensions QS:P2049,3048U174789
institution QS:P195,Q214867
Accession number
1990.50.1
Place of creation United States of America Edit this at Wikidata
Object history

Purchased from the artist by Alvin Adams [1804 1877], Watertown, Massachusetts, by 14 December 1858;[1] his estate; (his estate sale, Leonard & Co., Boston, 16 17 March 1882, 2nd day, no. 109); Hezekiah Conant [1827 1902], Pawtucket, Rhode Island;[2] William Leroy Sunderland [d. 1938], Exeter, Rhode Island, circa 1890;[3] his wife, Pearl Joslin Tarbox Sunderland Rose [d. 1989], Exeter, Rhode Island; (her estate sale, Northern Appraisers, Warwick, Rhode Island, 13 October 1990, no. 43).[4]

[1] On 14 December 1858 the New Bedford Daily Mercury reported "Mr. Bierstadt has disposed of his oil painting of 'Lake Lucerne' to a gentleman in Boston [Alvin Adams], for the sum of $925." Orphaned as a young boy, Adams [1804 1877] later rose to prominence and acquired a substantial fortune as founder and president of the Adams Express Company. In 1860 he built Fairhaven, a lavish home in Watertown, Massachusetts, where he displayed his art collection in a gallery open to the public one day a week.

[2] Alvin Adams died 1877 but his art collection was not sold until 1882. On 18 March 1882 the Boston Globe reported that Lake Lucerne had been purchased at the Adams sale by Mr. H[ezekiah] Conant of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, for $3375. Conant [1827 1902], an inventor and manufacturer, had established the Conant Thread Company in Pawtucket in 1868. For many years the largest employer in the state, he succeeded in forging profitable alliances with European thread manufacturers including J. & P. Coats Company, Ltd., of Paisley, Scotland, which began operating the Conant Thread Company as one of its branches in 1893.

[3] The New York Times (11 June 1990) reported that John D. Lynch, executor of the Rose estate, said he was told by Mrs. Rose that William L. Sunderland, her first husband, had acquired the painting in the 1890s.

[4] Lake Lucerne was purchased at auction by Richard York of Richard York Gallery, New York, acting on behalf of the National Gallery of Art with funds provided by Richard M. Scaife and Margaret R. Battle.
Notes More info at museum site
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