Healy, G. P. A. (George Peter Alexander) 1813-1894

Overview

Works:	125 works in 148 publications in 4 languages and 2,149 library holdings
Genres:	Photographs
Roles:	Illustrator
Classifications:	nd237.h4, 759.13

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Publications about G. P. A Healy

Publications by G. P. A Healy

Publications by G. P. A Healy, published posthumously.

Most widely held works about G. P. A Healy

G.P.A. Healy, American artist; an intimate chronicle of the nineteenth century by Marie De Mare ( Book )
A souvenir of the exhibition entitled Healy's sitters; or, A portrait panorama of the Victorian Age, being a comprehensive collection of the likenesses of some of the most important personages of Europe & America by Virginia Museum of Fine Arts ( Book )
Life of George P.A. Healy by Marie Healy Bigot ( Book )
A catalog of the paintings by G.P.A. Healy in the Illinois State Museum collection by Illinois State Museum ( Book )
Healy's Lincoln no. 1 by Katharine McCook Knox ( Book )

Line engraved likeness of John Quincy Adams. Certificate. Having examined a portrait of the late John Quincy Adams, painted by G.P.A. Healy, and engraved by Joseph Andrews, exhibited to us by the publisher, Geo. K. Snow--we take pleasure in testifying to its extraordinary fidelity as a likeness, and its merit as a work of art by George K Snow ( Book )
Exhibition of paintings by George Peter Alexander Healy, 1813-1894, upon the centenary of his birth : The Art Institute of Chicago, from January 2 to January 19, 1913 ( Book )
G.P.A. Healy exhibition, Chicago Historical Society, April 25 -May 25, 1943 by Chicago Historical Society ( Book )
Proceedings on presentation of portrait of Gen. Henry Dearborn painted by Gilbert Stuart, to the Calumet Club, Chicago, May 20, 1886 by Ill.) Calumet Club (Chicago ( Book )
A souvenir of the exhibition entitled Healy's sitters; or, A portrait panorama of the Victorian Age, being a comprehensive collection of the likenesses of some of the most inportant personages of Europe & America, as portrayed by George Peter Alexander Healy between the years 1837 and 1899 by Virginia Museum of Fine Arts ( Book )
Photographs of artists in their Paris studios, 1880-1890 by George Walter Vincent Smith Museum ( Visual )
Healy, George Peter Alexander by Robin Simon ( Book )
Thomas R. Hay research material on George Peter Alexander Healy, 1952-1954 by Thomas Robson Hay ( )
John C. Calhoun portraits collection, 1959-1982 by Mary Pasco Conrad Stevenson ( )
Artists in their Paris studios, ] 1880-1890 ( Visual )
Paintings by George P.A. Healy ( Book )
George Peter Alexander Healy (1813-1894) : Roxana Atwater Wentworth (Painting), 1876 ( Book )
Healy, George Peter Alexander by Boston Museum of Fine Arts ( Book )
George Peter Alexander Healy by Theodore E Stebbins ( Book )
G.P.A. Healy, half-length portrait, facing front ( Visual )

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Most widely held works by G. P. A Healy

Reminiscences of a portrait painter by G. P. A Healy ( Book )
19 editions published between 1894 and 1970 in English and held by 480 libraries worldwide

G.P.A. Healy : famous figures and Louisiana patrons : [exhibition] the Louisiana State Museum, December 1976-May 1977 : catalogue by Vaughn L Glasgow ( Book )
2 editions published in 1976 in English and held by 49 libraries worldwide

A Souvenir of the exhibition entitled Healy's sitters or, A portrait panorama of the Victorian age : being, a comprehensive collection of the likenesses of some of the most important personages of Europe & America as portrayed by George Peter Alexander Healy between the years 1837 and 1899 : Supplemented with, documents related to the artist's life and furnishings of the period on view at, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, 24 January--5 March, 1950 ( Book )
2 editions published in 1950 in English and held by 6 libraries worldwide

Exhibition of paintings by George Peter Alexander Healy 1813-1894, upon the centenary of his birth : the Art Institute of Chicago from January 2 to January 19, 1913 by G. P. A Healy ( Book )
2 editions published in 1913 in English and held by 4 libraries worldwide

J.Q. Adams ( Visual )
2 editions published between 1898 and 1907 in No Linguistic content and English and held by 3 libraries worldwide
John Q. Adams, half-length portrait, seated, facing slightly left, holding book.

George P.A. Healy : the third diary by Patricia D Duzich ( Book )
3 editions published in 1992 in English and held by 2 libraries worldwide

John Quincy Adams ( Visual )
in English and held by 2 libraries worldwide
Subject: A portrait of John Quincy Adams.

G.P.A. Healy by G. P. A Healy ( Book )
2 editions published in 1966 in English and held by 2 libraries worldwide

Healy : [exhibition held October 18th-November 26th, 1966] Florence Lewison Gallery by N.Y.) Florence Lewison Gallery (New York ( Book )
2 editions published in 1966 in English and held by 2 libraries worldwide

The arch of Titus by G. P. A Healy ( Visual )
2 editions published in 1997 in No Linguistic content and English and held by 2 libraries worldwide
The painting on slide 1 has the figures from the photograph on slide 2 painted into the scenery in exact detail. The photograph on slide 2 shows the grid marks used by the artists to paint these figures as life-like as possible.

Abraham Lincoln by G. P. A Healy ( Visual )
and held by 2 libraries worldwide

George P.A. Healy letter to Charles Warren Cram, undated by G. P. A Healy ( Book )
in French and held by 1 library worldwide

Dorilus Morrison and family papers, 1706-1913 by Dorilus Morrison ( )
in English and held by 1 library worldwide
Letters, deeds, leases, financial records, clippings, genealogical data, and other papers of Morrison, a Minneapolis businessman, mayor (1867), and state senator (1864-1865), of his wife, Harriet K. Whitmore, and of other family members.

Artist file by G. P. A Healy ( )
in Undetermined and held by 1 library worldwide

Autograph letters signed (6) : various places, to Henry Wheaton (1), Catharine Wheaton, Abby Wheaton, and Martha Burrill Wheaton, 1847 July 24-1871 Aug. 13 by George Peter Alexander Healy ( Book )
in English and held by 1 library worldwide
Concerning his portrait of Henry Wheaton.

Autograph letter signed : Paris, to F.P. Corbin, 1846 Sept. 26 by George Peter Alexander Healy ( Book )
1 edition published in 1846 in English and held by 1 library worldwide
Expressing pleasure at having met Scrope Davies and mentioning his own portraits of the French king and of Rufus King, later American minister.

Souvenir of Marshfield by Louis Eugène Pirodon ( Visual )
1 edition published in 1850 in English and held by 1 library worldwide
Full-length standing portrait of Senator Daniel Webster outside of his Marshfield, Mass. home. He stands in front of a large tree holding a rifle in his left hand. His wife is shown in the doorway to their house in the background.

The Peacemakers by G. P. A Healy ( Visual )
1 edition published in 1868 in English and held by 1 library worldwide
Painting shows the March 1865 meeting among President Abraham Lincoln, Lt. General Ulysses S. Grant, Maj. General William T. Sherman, and Rear Admiral David D. Porter aboard the RIVER QUEEN off City Point, Va. They are discussing propects of peace during Grant's siege of Richmond, just a few weeks before the Civil War ended.

James Robb papers, 1846-1871 by James Robb ( )
in Undetermined and held by 1 library worldwide
Fourteen letters written to Robb, 1846-1871, from John Gadsby Chapman, Henry Dilworth Gilpin, James H. Hackett, George Peter Alexander Healy, Daniel Huntington, Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, William Kemble, Charles Macalester, Hiram Powers, Robert Walter Weir, and Richard Henry Wilde; a letter written to "My Dear Sir" by Robb, 1848; a handwritten copy of an agreement between Hiram Powers and Robb concerning the exhibiting of Powers' THE GREEK SLAVE, 1848; a page of clippings, undated and 1859, relating to the sale of the Robb collection and to his railroad affiliation.

Photographs of the Williams-Chesnut-Manning families] [ca. 1864-1916 ( Visual )
in English and held by 1 library worldwide
Photographs of exterior and interior of Mulberry Planation, Camden, S.C. and members of Chesnut, Manning, and Williams families of Kershaw County, S.C. Identified members: James Chesnut, Jr., copy of portrait by William H. Scarborough and cabinet photographs in uniform by W.A. Reckling, Columbia, S.C.; Sallie Bland Clarke Manning, copy of photograph by G.P.A. Healy and cartes-de-visite by Quinby & Co., Charleston, S.C.; John Thomson Darby, M.D., carte-de-visite by Le Gray & Co., Paris, 1864; John L. Manning, copy of portrait by G.P.A. Healy and boudoir photograph with Susan Matilda Manning; Mary Vardrine McBee and sister Estelle McBee, with Ashley Hall in Charleston, by Holland's Studio; Sarah Buchanan Campbell Preston Lowndes, carte-de-visite by Vannerson, Richmond, Va.; Ben Pleasant and Mammy Ann, former slaves of Governor John L. Manning. Copy prints from Frick Art Reference Library. Darby image is full-length, wearing top hat and long coat and holding on umbrella.

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