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Lawrence Park (art historian)

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in October 1922 (reprinted by the American Antiquarian Society as a standalone publication in 1923). Both books revived interest in these largely forgotten painters. Per art historian David Meschutt, his "thoroughly researched publications, each containing a biographical sketch of the artist and a
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from 1896 to 1897. He worked as a drafter at a well-known Boston architectural firm from 1897 to 1901, when he launched his own architectural firm, Park & Kendall, with partner Robert R. Kendall. On November 16, 1905, he married Maria Davis Motley, a grandniece of
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Next, Park began researching early American portrait painters, traveling to view their works and making detailed notes and pencil sketches. His monograph on colonial Massachusetts painter
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Gilbert Stuart: An Illustrated Descriptive List of His Works Compiled by Lawrence Park, with an Account of His Life by John Hill Morgan and an Appreciation by Royal Cortissoz
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Long interested in genealogy and family portraits, Park embarked on his new career in 1914, when he published his first foray into historical scholarship, a genealogy called
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Gilbert Stuart: An Illustrated Descriptive List of His Works compiled by Lawrence Park with an Account of His Life by John Hill Morgan
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surveying early American portraits in Virginia, and the following year he accompanied a second Frick expedition to South Carolina.
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As his reputation mounted, Park became a member of the American Antiquarian Society, the Massachusetts Historical Society, the
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Park's magnum opum, a four-volume biography and descriptive catalog of renowned American portraitist
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in December 1917 (reprinted by the University Press of Boston as a standalone publication in 1918).
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Park's health began to fail soon after his return from the South. He died at his home in
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Joseph Blackburn: A Colonial Portrait Painter; With a Descriptive List of His Works
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who authored pioneering critical and biographical studies of portrait painters
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Park, Lawrence; Morgan, John Hill; Sawitzky, William (1926). "Lawrence Park".
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Meschutt, David (July 2004). "Park, Lawrence (1873–1924), art historian".
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catalog of his paintings, are the definitive studies of both painters."
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Joseph Badger (1708–1765) and a Descriptive List of Some of His Works
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from 1892 to 1896 without receiving his degree. He studied at the
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People associated with Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library
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in 1919. In 1921 he accompanied field researchers from the
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in 1917 and nonresidential curator of colonial art at the
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Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities
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Influential studies of early American portrait painters
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Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society
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Worcester, Massachusetts
Groton, Massachusetts
Harvard University
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

art historian
architect
genealogist
Gilbert Stuart
Joseph Badger
Joseph Blackburn
Winterthur Library
Frick Art Reference Library
Worcester, Massachusetts
Harvard University
School of Drawing and Painting
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
John Lothrop Motley
New England Historical and Genealogical Register
Joseph Badger
Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society
Joseph Blackburn
Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society
Gilbert Stuart
New England Historic Genealogical Society
Massachusetts Society of Colonial Wars
Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities
Worcester Art Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art

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