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PROVENANCE
Mr. Wentworth, Boston, 1899
Private Collection, Wyoming
EXHIBITED:
Boston, Boston Art Club Exhibition
Boston, Lincoln House, Loan Exhibition of Pictures, March 26 - April 3, 1899.
In the spring of 1899, an exhibition of paintings was staged at the Lincoln House in Boston. Paintings were loaned from both artists and private owners including this work by Alexander Pope. It was lent by Mr. Wentworth, who lived at 110 Devonshire Street, an address now at the center of bustling downtown Boston.
The paintings were showed in the hopes that they "would give pleasure and be of some profit" according to the exhibition catalogue. The fair was a popular occasion as evidenced by the positive press it received from The Commons, a Chicago monthly periodical, who described the event as "a successful art exhibition and fair."