Creator:

Flagg, Jared B. (Jared Bradley), 1820-1899  Search this

Names:

Allston, Washington, 1779-1843  Search this

Johnson, Laura Winthrop, 1824-1889  Search this

Extent:

1 Item ((on partial microfilm reel))

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Date:

1892 Jan. 30

Scope and Contents:

Mr. Flagg offers to clean a sketch by Washington Allston which Mrs. Johnson owns, and asks to purchase it as well.

Biographical / Historical:

Jared Bradley Flagg, an Episcopalian priest, painter, writer and founder of the Yale Art Library, was the nephew of painter Washington Allston, and wrote the Life and Letters of Washington Allston. Johnson (b. Laura Winthrop) wrote prose and poetry, including Poems of Twenty Years (1874), 800 Miles in an Ambulance (1899), and The Life and Poems of Theodore Winthrop (1884). Her father, Francis Bayard Winthrop, Jr. of New Haven, Conn., collected works of art, including those of Allston.

Other Title:

Mrs. Oliver Templeton Johnson papers (microfilm title)

Provenance:

Donated 1961 by Winslow Ames, grandson of Laura Winthrop Johnson.

Restrictions:

Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center. Microfilmed materials must be consulted on microfilm. Contact Reference Services for more information.

Occupation:

Portrait painters -- Massachusetts -- Boston  Search this

Identifier:

AAA.flagjare

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw97446803d-ace1-42c6-9e92-528df18f64b7

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-flagjare