Lawrence Park (art historian)

Lawrence Park
Born(1873-12-16)December 16, 1873
Worcester, Massachusetts, US
DiedSeptember 28, 1924(1924-09-28) (aged 50)
Groton, Massachusetts, US
Alma mater
Occupation(s)Art historian, architect, genealogist
Known forInfluential studies of early American portrait painters
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Lawrence Park (December 16, 1873 – September 28, 1924) was an American art historian, architect, and genealogist who authored pioneering critical and biographical studies of portrait painters Gilbert Stuart, Joseph Badger, and Joseph Blackburn, active during the colonial and early federal periods of the United States. Park's four-volume treatise on Stuart was published posthumously in 1926.[1][2] Park's papers are held at the Winterthur Library and the Frick Art Reference Library.[3][1]

  1. ^ a b Meschutt, David (July 2004). "Park, Lawrence (1873–1924), art historian". American National Biography Online. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1401139. ISBN 978-0-19-860669-7.
  2. ^ Park, Lawrence; Morgan, John Hill; Sawitzky, William (1926). "Lawrence Park". Gilbert Stuart: An Illustrated Descriptive List of His Works compiled by Lawrence Park with an Account of His Life by John Hill Morgan. Vol. 1. New York: William Edwin Rudge. pp. 5–8.
  3. ^ "Lawrence Park Papers 1908–1923". Winterthur Library. Archived from the original on March 27, 2019. Retrieved September 20, 2022.