| Harrison, Joseph, 1810-1874 | |||||||||||||||||||
| type | Collector Patron | ||||||||||||||||||
| dates | 1810-1874 | ||||||||||||||||||
| city | Philadelphia | ||||||||||||||||||
| state | PA | ||||||||||||||||||
| other cities | St. Petersburg, Russia; London, United Kingdom; Paris, France; | ||||||||||||||||||
| sex | M | ||||||||||||||||||
| history |
Joseph Harrison was an art collector, served on the board of Philadelphia Academy of Fine Art, self-taught engineer and partner of Garrett, Eastwick and Co., Pennsylvania manufacturers of locomotive engines. Harrison lent work to The Universal Exhibition held in Paris, 1867. Some of the artwork in Harrison's collection were by Gilbert Stuart, Benjamin West, and James McNeill Whistler in his collection. See Frederick Baekeland, "Collectors of American Painting, 1813 to 1913," American Art Review, Nov-Dec 1976. For further biographical information related to Harrison's collecting see The Walpole Society note book, 1971 [http://arcade.nyarc.org:80/record=b509924~S6] |
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| decades | 1840-1850 1850-1860 1860-1870 |
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| updated | 02/14/2025 10:12:23 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| see also | Harrison, Sarah, 1817-1906
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