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Italian Shepherd Boy, (painting). Artist:  Allston, Washington, 1779-1843, painter. Title:  Italian Shepherd Boy, (painting). Other Titles:  Edwin, (painting). Dates:  1819. Medium:  Oil on canvas. Dimensions:  21 x 17 in. (53.3 x 43.2 cm) Inscription:  (On back:) W. Allston/1819 signed Description:  An adolescent boy is seated in a forest landscape. He holds a flute in his left hand. Subject:  Figure male -- Child Ethnic -- Italian Occupation -- Farm -- Shepherd Object -- Musical Instrument -- Flute Landscape -- Forest Landscape -- Italy Literature -- Beattie -- Minstrel Literature -- Character -- Edwin Object Type:  Painting Owner:  Detroit Institute of Arts, 5200 Woodward Avenue, Detroit, Michigan 48202 Accession Number: 44.166 Provenance:  Formerly in the collection of Amory, Nathaniel, (possibly) by Sept. 1825. Gilmor, Robert, Baltimore, Maryland (possibly) before 1839. Borland, William Gibson, family of, Concord, Massachusetts 1944. Spark, Victor, New York, New York 1944. Acquired 1944. Remarks:  This work is possibly Allston's unlocated painting of "Edwin," from James Beattie's poem "The Minstrel." "Edwin" was exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Fifteenth Annual Exhibition in 1826 (no. 151). References:  "American paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts; volume 1: Works by artists born by 1816," New York : Hudson Hills Press, 1991, no. 3. "Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts; a checklist of the paintings acquired before June 1965," Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1965. Illustration:  Image on file. "American paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts; volume 1: Works by artists born by 1816," New York : Hudson Hills Press, 1991, pg. 21. Note:  The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide. Repository:  Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 Control Number:  IAP 24150014   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 24150014 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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