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Renaissance — 19th-century Art
Davis holdings cover primary areas in painting from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century from Europe and the U.S. An area of particular strength is nineteenth-century American landscape painting. Portraiture from the Netherlandish, French, and American traditions is also well represented.

 
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above: Abraham de Vries, A Double Portrait (detail), 1630s. Oil on canvas, 47 ½ x 37 in. Gift of Ina Lee Brown Ramer (Class of 1956) and Estelle Newman Tanner (Class of 1957), friends to each other and friends to Wellesley, 1996.41.
 above: Amita Rao, Class of 2005, and Jennifer Weaver, Class of 2004, viewing Angelica Kauffmann’s Valentine, Proteus, Sylvia and Giulia in the Forest, 1788. Oil on canvas, 61 ¾ x 87 in. Museum purchase in memory of Winifred Herman Friedman (Class of 1945), 1976.34. above: George Inness, A Gray Lowery Day (detail), 1877. Oil on canvas, 17 7/8 x 25 9/16 in. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James B. Munn (Ruth C. Hanford, Class of 1909) in the name of the Class of 1909, 1977.35.