Alexander Graham Bell
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Object Details
- Artist
- John Wycliffe Lowes Forster, 31 Dec 1850 - 25 Apr 1938
- Sitter
- Alexander Graham Bell, 3 Mar 1847 - 2 Aug 1922
- Provenance
- Lilian Grosvenor Jones, granddaughter of sitter; her son Gilbert Grosvenor Coville, Miami; gift 1985 to NPG
- Letter Gilbert G. Coville to Robert Stewart 24 October 1985. According to Joseph Jones, husband of Lilian Jones, it was painted from life in 1919. Phone conversation with Robert Stewart 3 October 1985
- Credit Line
- National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Gilbert Grosvenor Coville
- 1919
- Object number
- NPG.85.74
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- Painting
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Stretcher: 77.8 × 65.2 × 2.9 cm (30 5/8 × 25 11/16 × 1 1/8")
- See more items in
- National Portrait Gallery Collection
- Location
- Currently not on view
- National Portrait Gallery
- Topic
- Personal Attribute\Facial Hair\Beard
- Costume\Dress Accessory\Neckwear\Tie\Necktie
- Alexander Graham Bell: Male
- Alexander Graham Bell: Education and Scholarship\Educator\Teacher
- Alexander Graham Bell: Science and Technology\Inventor
- Alexander Graham Bell: Science and Technology\Inventor\Telephone
- Portrait
- Record ID
- npg_NPG.85.74
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm40371c08e-214a-4372-b99f-f2edb3e451aa
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