Object details
Accession number
1.4.o.41
Creators
Full title
Florence Hackett
Creation Date
about 1900
Provenance
Entered Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection at an unknown date.
Marks
Inscribed (lower left): AMA (in monogram)
Inscribed (lower right): A M Andersen
Dimensions
44.8 x 26.3 cm (17 5/8 x 10 3/8 in.)
Display Media
Pencil and color washes on gray paper
Web Commentary
Andreas Martin Andersen made portraits of many wealthy people from Boston and Newport over the course of his short career—including this drawing of Florence Hackett. The pencil portrait shows the young artist’s blossoming talent. Ms. Hackett’s face and the elegant lines of her long neck are refined. They offset the looser, more sparing strokes of the pencil that suggest the ruffles and drapery of her blouse. The artist added deliberate touches of soft color to finish the drawing.Isabella supported many young artists and acquired four paintings by Andersen in addition to this drawing. Tragically Andersen contracted tuberculosis in 1902 and died shortly at the age of 33.
Permanent Gallery Location
Short Gallery
Bibliography
Rollin van N. Hadley (ed.). Drawings: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1968), p. 65.
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