Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 3

Concluding our visit to the wonderful BMFA...

Now into the realm of fine furniture...an incredible Chippendale-
style desk, by George Bright, Boston, late 1700s

Writing table, incredible marquetry

Another

Copley, Samuel Adams, 1772

Copley, Hancock, 1765

Thomas Sully, The Passage of the Delaware, 1819

"The Cult of Washington" and particularly Gilbert Stuart's defining
1796 portrait

Benjamin West, The Hope Family of Sydenham, Kent, 1802

Frank Lloyd Wright chair...not from the "Please be seated"
collection

Glackens, Italo-American Celebration, Washington Square, 1912;
Columbus Day, no doubt; Glackens was Albert Barnes' close personal
bud and purchasing agent

Childe Hassam, At Dusk (Boston Common at Twilight), 1885

Among a hall or two hung like this

John Singer Sargent, An Artist in His Studio, 1905 

Obligatory Tiffany dragonfly lamp

Among many gorgeous rooms...this featuring Le Domino Rose, by
John Humphreys Johnston, 1895

Sargent, The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit, 1882; note
refence to Las Meninas...

The central painting is Sargent's Nude Study of Thomas E. McKeller, 1921

Sargent, Henry Lee Higginson, 1903; major Boston benefactor,
to this museum, also founder of the Boston Symphony Orchestra

The Salon...what the museum would have looked like in the 1800s

Monumental Table Lamp, Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 
mid-1800s

A. Ellis, Mr. Tiffen of East Kingston, New Hampshire, c. 1820

Unknown, or "artist once known" as the MFA puts it...View of the Iron
Works, Canton, Massachusetts, mid-19th

William Matthew Prior, Three Sisters of the Copeland Family, 1854

Winthrop Chandler, The Reverend Ebeneezer Devotion, 1770

Artist once known, Portrait of Abigail Rose, North Branford, Connecticut,
at the Age of Fourteen, 1786

Another incredible American room

And tons of wonderful OBF, which we love, and which, Vicki predicts,
will become valuable again in a few years, when it is rare