Artist: Robert Swain Peabody ( - )
Artworks in Museum Collections: (60)
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Robert Swain Gifford An October Day etching 1881
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Robert Swain Gifford Solitude Etching 1879
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Robert Swain Gifford Tide flats and windmills 19th - 20th century
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Robert Swain Gifford Officers playing Hockey on Wollwich - Common.From The Illustrated London News 20 July 1872 Wood Engraving. 19th - 20th century
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Joseph Swain Illustration to a Poem by Milton 19th - 20th century
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Gilbert Stuart - Mrs. Stephen Peabody 1809 Oil on panel Arizona State University Museum
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Robert Hinshelwood Landscape 19th century
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John Singer Sargent - Ellen Peabody Endicott (Mrs. William Crowninshield Endicott) 1901 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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James Frothingham Captain Joseph Peabody oil on canvas 18th - 19th century
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Samuel Palmer "_till Vesper bade the swain...", illustration for Eclogue 6, opposite page 64 in the book An English Version of the Eclogues of Virgil by Samuel Palmer (London: Seeley & Company, 1883) photogravure 1883
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William Edward Norton, American, 1843-1916 New England Coast 1873 Oil on canvas 40.64 x 69.21
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Swain Facsimile of part of the Celebrated print of the Sea Monsters Engraved by Andrea Mantegna, 11th plate opposite page 508 in the book, An Inquiry into the Origin and Early History of Engraving upon Copper and Wood by William Young Ottley (London: J
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Louis Lang, American (born in Germany), 1824-1893 Girls with Berries 1867 Oil on canvas 51.43
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Ice Fall of Toho Glacier, Henry G. Peabody (attributed to) (United States, 1855 - 1951) , circa 1900, Gelatin-silver print
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Amphora Egyptian New Kingdom Dynasty 18, 1539-1292 B.C. Egyptian alabaster Height x diameter: 34.8 x
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William Morris Hunt, American, 1824-1879 Italian Peasant Boy 1866 Oil on canvas 99.06 x 64.77
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Samuel Stillman Osgood, American, 1808-1885 Anna Quincy Thaxter Parsons about 1830 Oil on canvas 76.83
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Crevasse Formations in Illecillewaet Ice Fall, Henry G. Peabody (attributed to) (United States, 1855 - 1951) , circa 1900, Gelatin-silver print
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George Morland, British, 1763-1804 Carters with a Load of Slate Oil on canvas 99.4 x
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John Singleton Copley, American, 1738-1815 James Gambier 1773 Oil on canvas 127.63 x 101.6 cm
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Ice Fall of Illecillewach Glacier, from Side of Glacier Crest, Henry G. Peabody (attributed to) (United States, 1855 - 1951) , circa 1900, Gelatin-silver print
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Karl Pierre Daubigny, French, 1846-1886 Windmills near Dordrecht 1873 Oil on panel 34.3 x 58.1
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Jean Baptiste Van Loo, French, 1684-1745 Portrait of a Man with an Open Book Oil
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Marked by Paul Crespin Two-handled Cup and Cover drinking vessel London, England England, (London), 1733-34
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Unidentified artist, American, third quarter 18th century Mother and Child about 1755 Oil on canvas
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John Smibert, American (born in Scotland), 1688-1751 Thomas Hancock 1730 Oil on canvas 76.2 x
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Arnold Genth - Woman and Child 1908 gelatin silver print Peabody Essex Museum
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Edward Buttersworth - Clipper Dreadnought c. 1853 oil on canvas Peabody Essex Museum American
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John Singleton Copley, American, 1738-1815 Jonathan Jackson late 1760s Pastel on paper mounted on canvas
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Marked by John Hilliard Marked by John Thomason Baby"s Whistle and Rattle Birmingham, England England,
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Edwin Hale Lincoln - Whalers Rousseau and Desdemona 1889 platinum print Peabody Essex Museum American
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Thomas F. Davidson - Panorama of a Whaling Voyage c. 1860 oil on muslin Peabody Essex Museum American
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Walker Evans - Shop Fronts and Men, Selma, Alabama 1935 gelatin silver print Peabody Essex Museum American
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James Bard - Steamer Syracuse on the Hudson River 1857 oil on canvas Peabody Essex Museum American
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John Neagle, American, 1796-1865 George Peabody 1822 Oil on canvas 76.2 x 63.82 cm (30
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Fitz Hugh Lane - Ship Southern Cross in Boston Harbor 1851 oil on canvas Peabody Essex Museum American
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Fan England, 1730-50 Skin leaf painted in gouache; pierced, painted, and partially varnished ivory sticks
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Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli, French, 1824-1886 Figures in Renaissance Costume Oil on panel 44.1 x
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Gilles Peress - Ocean Haul-Seining: Dan King and His Crew Tying on the Bag 1983 gelatin silver print Peabody Essex Museum
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Samuel Walters - Jenny Lind Departing Liverpool aboard the Collins 1850 oil on canvas Peabody Essex Museum English
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James Ensor, Belgian, 1860-1949 Still Life with Sea Shells 1923 Oil on panel 44.5 x
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Chelsea Factory Botanical Plate Porcelain circa 1755
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Chelsea Factory Botanical Plate Porcelain circa 1755
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Chelsea Factory Botanical plate Porcelain circa 1755
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Kongelig Dansk Teapot with lid and stand porcelain circa 1850
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Chelsea Factory Kidney-Shaped Dish Porcelain circa 1760
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Chelsea Factory Kidney-Shaped Dish Porcelain circa 1760
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Felix Beato - Imperial Summer Palace, before the Burning, Yuen Ming Yuen, Pekin 1860 albumen print Peabody Essex Museum
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Chelsea Factory Plate soft paste porcelain circa 1753 - 1754
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Chelsea Factory Artichoke tureen with cover Porcelain circa 1754 - 1755
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Chelsea Factory Artichoke tureen with cover Porcelain circa 1754 - 1755
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Worcester Factory Cauliflower Tureen, Cover and Stand Porcelain circa 1758 - 1760
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Thomas Akawie Untitled Landscape air brushed acrylic on museum board 1979
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Red Grooms Museum Color lithograph offset 1978
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Thomas Shotter Boys Landscape with a Lockgate watercolor over graphite underdrawing and scraping out on wove paper circa 1833
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Robert Henri - Portrait of Mrs. Robert C. Watts 1926 oil on canvas The Maier Museum of Art American
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Robert Hennel Egg Cruet Silver, sterling 1852
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Robert Batty Dresden, plate 35 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut. Col. [Robert] Batty (London: Robert Jennings, 1829) steel engraving 1829
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Robert Batty Gottingen, plate 30 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut. Col. [Robert] Batty (London: Robert Jennings, 1829) steel engraving 1829
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Robert Batty Hameln, plate 29 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut. Col. [Robert] Batty (London: Robert Jennings, 1829) steel engraving 1829

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (27)
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Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology: Gifting and Feasting in the Northwest Coast Potlatch
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Peabody Essex Museum: The Kingdom Of Siam: The Art of Central Thailand, 1350 - 1800
The artworks include stone and bronze Buddha images, sculptures of Hindu deities, figural and decorative wood carvings, temple furnishings, illustrated manuscripts, jewelry, and textiles. The Peabody Essex Museum is the exclusive East Coast venue ...
Peabody Essex Museum: Ebony and Ivory: Furniture from British India and Ceylon
The exhibition is presented in conjunction with the publication of Furniture from British India and Ceylon: A Catalogue of the Collections in the Vi...
Peabody Essex Museum: Suggestive Curves
Each of the twenty-two boats selected for this exhibition is a descendant of a long ancestry of innovation and ...
Peabody Essex Museum: Air Lines: Photographs by Alex MacLean
"The line is one of the basic tools of artistic expression, but it is also evidence of human intellect and invention," notes Elizabeth Padjen, FAIA, consulting curator of architecture and design at the Peabody Essex Museum, and curator of Air Line...
Peabody Essex Museum: Exposing the Source: The Paintings of Nalini Malani
Malani's powerful, dream-like imagery straddles issues of individual, social, and political identity. Malani's city of Mumbai (formerly known as Bombay) is now the second largest in the world and an ongoing subject of her paintings. The lives of w...
Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University: Uncommon Legacies: Native American Art from the Peabody Essex Museum
Uncommon Legacies is arranged in five thematic groupings: "Nations Within"; "Pacific Coast Traders"; "The Interior Wilderness: Outposts, Explores, and Sojourners"; "The Interior Wilderness: Missionaries"; and "South American Adventurers." Each...
Peabody Essex Museum & Edo-Tokyo Museum: Cultural Riches of Early Japan-US Trade

The success of the Salem ships was fleeting, and it would be fifty-five years before Commodore Matthew Perry reestablished trade again so Americans could rediscover Japan’s rich culture.

A major exhibition organized jointly by the Peabody Esse...
Peabody Essex Museum: Joseph Cornell: Navigating the Imagination
"Joseph Cornell was an extraordinary artist whose work will capture the interest and imagination of all who see it. While self-taught, he was among the most influential artists of the 20th century and his work is renowned for fusing art, culture, ...
Peabody Essex Museum: Painted With Thread: The Art Of American Embroidery
Needlework artists, like their artwork, are diverse and individual-whether the artist is an eighteenth-century schoolgirl, a Victorian embroidery artist, a colonial revival needlework designer, a mid-twentieth-century artist, or a contemporary...
Peabody Essex Museum: Images of Paradise: Views from the Age of Exploration
The prints visually document the cultural exchanges that took place when European explorers Cook, La Perouse, Otto von Kotzebue, and Dumont ...
Peabody Essex Museum: The Artful Teapot: 20th Century Expressions from the Kamm Collection
The Artful Teapot demonstrates how the teapot can be provocative, playful, and profound as well as conventional. Addressing aesthetic, social, and political issues, the exhibition examines the teapot's ability to be more than just a device to serv...
Detroit Institute of Art: Kenro Izu: Sacred Places
Sacred Places is the inaugural exhibition in the newly refurbished Albert and Peggy de Salle Gallery of Photography. The space had been closed during the museum’s recent renovation. The galleries are the perfect place to showcase the more than 50 ...
Peabody Essex Museum: Mystical Tibetan Art

The Peabody Essex Museum offers a rare glimpse into Tibet, its artistic achievements, and its rich cultural heritage with The Mystical Arts of Tibet, an exhibition of art, religious objects, and photography spanning more than 500 years. The exhibi...
Peabody Essex Museum: Odyssey Into World Art Spans Time, Place, and Culture

Odyssey: A Journey Into World Art opens to the public October 16 and will run through the fall of 2001.

We want to push the boundaries, says Paula Richter, co-curator for the exhibition. There will be objects in Odyssey that people will be com...
Harvard University, Arthur M. Sackler Museum: Image and Empire: Picturing India during the Colonial Era
Image and Empire allows a broad examination of the arts and visual culture produced in and about India during the colonial era, said James Cuno, Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director of the Harvard University Art Museums. It features works creat...
National Gallery: Americans in Paris
Highlights include Whistler's 'White Girl' from the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, Sargent's astonishing painting of the daughters of Edward Darley Boit, from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and his notorious 'Madame X' from the Metropol...
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Splendid Isolation: Art of Easter Island
Dating from the 13th to the late 19th century, works in the exhibition will range from a monumental stone head to refined wooden sculptures, brightly painted b...
Peabody Essex Museum: FRANK BENSON: AMERICAN IMPRESSIONIST
Benson's virtuosity with light in all its manifestations will be the focus of a major exhibition opening at the Peabody Essex Museum September 29, 2000. Frank Benson: American Impressionist, will ...
Peabody Essex Museum: Accidental Mysteries: Beyond the Keepsake - Snapshot Photography
"We are delighted to show these compelling images from the Foster Collection at the museum," says PEM Chief Curator, Lynda Roscoe Hartigan, "They are excellent representations of found photography in which the artist in all of us—trained, or other...
Peabody Essex Museum: The Endurance: Art at latitude 74 degrees south
His fingers cracked and bled in a freezing darkroom. He scaled icy peaks and towering masts in search of a unique perspective. He stripped off the insulating warmth of gloves and hat to operate more efficiently. He nearly blinded himself...
Peabody Essex Museum: Secret World of the Forbidden City: Splendors from China's Imperial Palace
One of the emperors principal roles was that of arbiter of taste for the empire as a whole. Under the auspices of the Qing dynasty, the imperial collections and studios swelled to unprecedented proportions. Thousands of artists, the finest of t...
Brian Gross Fine Art: Willy Heeks: Recent Works
Bright, quirky shapes and playful lines hover over romantic ethereal spaces, referencing nature and hinting at narrative that quickly dissolves. With Heeks' practiced hand, an underlying framework grounds the chaotic, variegated marks, and this st...
Black Mesa Weavers for Life and Land: Online photoessay and Dine' (Navajo) weaving exhibition and nonprofit sale.
Many of the women of Black Mesa are fine weavers, and weaving has long been their way of earning a living. If you buy a weaving, you will be putting the money almost directly into the weaver's hands. Until they are free to live in peace, I am sell...
Peabody Essex Museum: To the Ends of the Earth, Painting the Polar Landscape
Driven by the promise of adventure, fame and spiritual fulfillment, artists risked their lives to witness scientific missions, personal journeys and officially sanctioned exploration. The polar environment provided ideal scenery for two major mari...
Cleveland Museum of Art: Gordon Parks: Photojournalism
These photographs by Gordon Parks offer insights into the African-American experience during the mid-20th century, notes Tom Hinson, CMA’s curator of photography. He describes the human condition, ...
Irish Museum of Modern Art: First Solo Exhibition in Europe by Nalini Malani
Works in the exhibition refer to female figures from both Indian and European traditions, which have been the focus of Malani’s work since the 1970s and give additional meaning to her complex layered surfaces. Included in her paintings are Alice,...

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