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Boys in a Pasture
Winslow Homer (American, 1836–1910)
1874
Medium/Technique
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
40.32 x 58.1 cm (15 7/8 x 22 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
The Hayden Collection—Charles Henry Hayden Fund
Accession Number53.2552
CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsPaintings
InscriptionsLower right: WINSLOW HOMER. N.A./1874
ProvenanceBetween 1874 and 1881, sold by the artist to James Tinker (b. 1825 - d. 1906), New York and London; by descent to his granddaughter, Katharine Lilian Gordon Tinker (b. 1891 - d. 1977), London [see note 1]. By 1953, Hector O'Connor (dealer), Dublin; 1953, to his brother, Patrick O'Connor (dealer), New York; 1953, sold by Patrick O'Connor to the MFA for $12,000. (Accession Date: December 10, 1953)
NOTES:
[1] According to Patrick O'Connor in a letter to the MFA (July 25, 1954), the painting was "bought from the artist by Mr. Tinker when on a visit to Canada and the U.S. for Locker-Lampson (a fur company) [and] descended to his grand-daughter, Miss Tinker who married a cousin of Owen Nares, it is from her family that it now comes." Katharine Lilian Gordon Tinker married Ramsay Llewelyn Ives Nares, brother of Owen Ives Nares. Her grandfather, James Tinker, worked for C. M. Lampson and Co., New York. He and his family lived in New York in the 1860s and 1870s and had returned to England by 1881.
NOTES:
[1] According to Patrick O'Connor in a letter to the MFA (July 25, 1954), the painting was "bought from the artist by Mr. Tinker when on a visit to Canada and the U.S. for Locker-Lampson (a fur company) [and] descended to his grand-daughter, Miss Tinker who married a cousin of Owen Nares, it is from her family that it now comes." Katharine Lilian Gordon Tinker married Ramsay Llewelyn Ives Nares, brother of Owen Ives Nares. Her grandfather, James Tinker, worked for C. M. Lampson and Co., New York. He and his family lived in New York in the 1860s and 1870s and had returned to England by 1881.