Artist: Lemuel Francis Abbott (1760 - 1803)
Nationality: British
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Media: Painting
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Biography:
English painter, Lemuel Francis Abbot was known for his portraits. He only painted male sitters, often of naval officers or other important clients. Abbott was declared insane in1798 and his unfinished works were completed by other artists.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Lemuel Francis Abbott - Captain Robert Calder c. 1787-1790 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art British
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Lemuel Francis Abbott - Portrait of Matthew Boulton (1728-1809) 1801-1803 oil on canvas Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery British
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Lemuel Shaw, ca. 1850 Albert Sands Southworth (American, 1811-1894); Josiah Johnson Hawes (American, 1808-1901)Daguerreotype; 21.6
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West Side, Looking North from the Upper 30s
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (active England), 1834-1903 The Little Nude Model, Reading Little Nude
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Exchange Place, New York
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Eugène Atget
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Lemuel M. Wiles - Genesee River Valley II c. 1865-70 oil on canvas Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester American
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Lemuel M. Wiles - Genesee River Valley I c. 1865-70 oil on canvas Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester American
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John Smibert - Mrs. Francis Brinley and Her Son Francis 1729 oil on canvas The Metropolitan Museum of Art American
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler, The Doctor, 1894
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler, A Wharf, 1859
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Billingsgate, 1859
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Billingsgate, 1859
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler, The Rag Gatherers, 1858
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Billingsgate, 1859
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Drouet, 1859
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Abbott Handerson Thayer, David, circa 1895
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Fulham, 1879
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Pierrot, 1889
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Hurlingham, 1879
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Billingsgate, 1859
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler, The Little Pool, 1861
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler, The Kitchen, 1858
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler, The Dog on the Kennel, 1858
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Becquet, 1859
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler, The Tyresmith, 1890
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler, The Punt, 1861
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Sketching, No. 1, 1861
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler, The Thames, 1896
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Churchyard, 1887
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler, The Winged Hat, 1890
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Little Evelyn, 1896
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler, The Little Putney, No. 1, 1879
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Limehouse, 1878
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Becquet, 1859
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler, The Pool, 1859
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler, The Rag Gatherers, 1858
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Union Square, Manhattan
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Weary, 1863

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (30)
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Portland Museum of Art: North and South: Berenice Abbott's U.S. Route 1
What is interesting about this show is that it is a complete body of work in a concentrated time, said Aprile Gallant, Curator of Prints, Drawing, & Photographs. Abbott works to preserve sites that are specifically 1954, rather than documenting t...
Julia Dean Gallery: Call for Artists: The Berenice Abbott Prize for an Emerging Photographer
Judges: Michael Grecco, commercial photographer
G.Ray Hawkins, owner, G. Ray Hawkins Gallery
Brian Storm, president, MediaStorm
Amy Kawadler, Canon’s Professional Markets Rep Call, visit the website or e-mail for informati...
High Museum: Chorus of Light: Photographs from the Sir Elton John Collection
The High Museum of Art is the only venue for these exhibitions. Chorus of Light: Photographs from the Sir Elton John Collection features approximately 320 masterpieces by renowned photographers, including Berenice Abbott, Richard Avedon, D...
Detriot Institute of Art: Where the Girls Are: Photographs by Women in the Permanent Collection
This exhibition examines the enduring presence of women throughout the history of photography with a survey from the museum’s photograph collection that ranges from the 19th century through the present day. ...
Phoenix Art Museum: Keeping Shadows: Photography from the Worcester Art Museum
From daguerreotypes to digital prints, it includes masterworks by such innovators and icons of the medium as Alfred Stieglitz, Matthew Brady, Lewis Carroll, Julia Margaret Cameron, Eadweard Muybridge, Ansel Adams, Paul Strand, Cecil Beaton, Walker...
Muskegon Museum of Art: Second Nature: Drawings by Karen Klein
She does start with a careful and close study of nature, but transforms what she observes. Referring to the great artist James Abbott McNeil Whistler, Klein notes that as an artist she must arrange and harmonize into a glorious unity what she pick...
Kunsthalle Wien, Museumsquartier: Robert Adrian X
It’s all about this fuzzy territory between different media, it’s about the vanishing of demarcating definitions.” Quotes from classical modernity, advertising, and media technology or arms-industry artifacts are placed in new, often flowing-spati...
Museum of Photographic Arts: LAST CHANCE: Facts Showered with Light
Like the written word, the photograph fixes perfectly but translates poorly, producing images altogether more luminous, more immense, more mesmerizing and quixotic than what we might actually have seen or...
Davis Museum and Cultural Center: Surrounding Interiors: Views Inside the Car
This exhibition features 24 works by 17 contemporary artists in photography, video, sculpture, painting and multi-media who explore the mutable nature of the car interior. Works by artists Andrew Bush, Nan Goldin and Alex Harris (photography);...
Center of Contemporary Art: 'The Middle Way: Christchurch Meets Bangkok, Bangkok Meets Christchurch
'The Middle Way' in Thai Buddhist terms means: "Travelling the middle way, refuting the extremes and having tolerance for others" and for New Zealand/European artists this could mean, finding 'a type of middle ground'. The Thai artists invol...
Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery: Richard Meryman: For the Love of Painting
Meryman became a portrait painter, receiving commissions from many members of Dublin society, including Rob Sagendorph, founder of Yankee magazine and his wife, beaTrix Sagendorph, founder of the Thorne Gallery. Meryman also painted many digni...
Victoria and Albert Museum: Seeing Things: Photographing Objects 1850-2001
It features many of the greatest practitioners of photography, including Julia Margaret Cameron, Eugene Atget, Man Ray, Henri Cartier-Bresson, William Eggleston, Helen Chadwick as well as prominent younger photographers. Natural Things ...
Sanford L. Smith & Associates: New York Photography Fair
The show offers something for everyone. This is a downtown show, said Sanford Smith, with a mix of emerging and established dealers that appeals to both younger and seasoned ...
J. Paul Getty Center: The Man in the Street: Eugene Atget in Paris
Drawn entirely from the Getty Museum collection, the exhibition includes more than 80 of Atget's images captured during his self-devised and eccentric photographic campaign, which documented as...
Women in Photography: 20th Anniversary Exhibtion: Images of Women - Images of Tea opens at House of Photographic Art (HOPA)
We are thrilled to announce that Linda McCartney's print, T-Pot, will be on exhibit as well as a beautiful serene photograph by her daughter Mary McCartney Donald. Our Anniversary exhibit is a wonderful testament to the success of wo...
Stephen Cohen Gallery: Edmund Teske: Images Out of Time
A pioneering visual artist, Teske was born in Chicago in 1911, where his childhood interest in photography grew into a 60-year pursuit of artistic freedom. His early training at Taliesin with Frank Lloyd Wright in the 1930s offered Teske import...
Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum: Tools as Art: The Hechinger Collection
For that reason, the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum is retooling to present "Tools as Art: The Hechinger Collection" from April 17 – June 20. The 65 works comprising the exhibition celebrate the amazing variety of 20th century art that represents...
Women in Photography: Call for Artists: virtual * visual : people - places - things
"Virtual * visual" will feature seventy-four juried images on WIPI's web site. The call for entries is open to female photographers, professional and amateur, using any photographic process. The exhibit will reflect a variety of work from fine ...
Georgia O'Keefe Museum: Views of the City: 1910–1949
Museum director George G. King said, This exhibition provides the viewer a wonderful opportunity to learn more about Georgia OKeeffe, her colleagues,...
Saint Louis Art Museum: WONDERLAND
The ten artists participating in the exhibition – Janet Cardiff, Olafur Eliasson, Teresita Fernández, Stephen Hendee, Bill Klaila, Joep van Lieshout, Ernesto Neto, Pipilotti Rist, Gregor Schneider, ...
Cleveland Museum of Art: Nature Sublime: Landscapes from the Nineteenth Century
During the 19th century, in both European and American art, the landscape emerged as a subject of profound significance. As industry flourished, many artists turned to nature as an escape. Nature Sublime will examine the ways that the major artist...
Taft Museum: Etchings and Drypoints of James McNeill Whistler
This exhibition is sponsored by the Oliver Family Foundation. While Whistler’s paintings were often subjected to harsh criticism, his printed work garnered him a reputation as ...
Whitney Museum: 2000 Biennial Exhibition
For the first time in Biennial history, the exhibition was curated by a group of outside experts working across the country, under the guidance of Whitney Museum director ...
Detroit Institute of Art: American Attitude: Whistler and His Followers
The 63 pieces in the show include 13 paintings by Whistler as well as works by other prominent American artists such as John Singer Sargent, William Merritt Chase, Thomas Wilmer Dewing and Henry Ossawa Tanner. Whistler’s paintings will be juxtapos...
San Diego Museum of Art: The Frame in America: 1860-1960
A unique aspect of The Frame in America is that all ninety-eight frames included in the exhibition are displayed without pictures in order to assist visitors in focusing on each frame’s individual characteristics. Many of the frames are also neste...
Metropolitan Museum of Art: American Drawings and Watercolors: Highlights from the Collection, 1710-1890
The exhibition will offer a rare opportunity to see many of the Museum's American works on paper, which – due to their fragile nature and sensitivity to light – are displayed only periodically. The often informal character or preparatory function ...
Smithsonian, National Museum of American Art and its Rewick Gallery: Treasures to Go!
`Storing treasures that attract more than half a million visitors each year was not an option the staff wanted to consider,` said Elizabeth Broun, director of the Smithsonians American Art Museum. Instead, in January the museum is laun...
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Photography: Processes, Preservation, and Conservation
The exhibition is made possible by the Henry Nias Foundation, Inc. Philippe de Montebello, Director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, explained, From its in...
San Diego Museum of Art: Vital Forms: American Art and Design in the Atomic Age, 1940-1960
With more than 265 items, the exhibition comprises every category of object imaginable including paintings, sculpture, architectural photography, fashion, textiles, ceramics, jewelry, furniture, glass, toys, and graphic design. Among the highlight...
Delaware Art Museum: An American Century of Photography: From Dry-plate to Digital, The Hallmark Photographic Collection

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