| 1806/07/04 |
Samuel Parkman |
Benefactor |
Commissioned by Samuel Parkman, Gilbert Stuart's painting of George "Washington at Dorchester Heights" is gifted to the city of Boston. It hung at Fanueil Hall and is now at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. |
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| 1895/00/00 |
Sarah Choate Sears |
Client |
Sarah Sears commissions John Sargent to paint a portrait of her six year old daughter, Helen. The painting is on display at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. A charcoal sketch by Sargent of Helen at age 17 is reproduced in Sargent Portrait Drawings. |
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| 1895/00/00 |
Helen Sears |
Subject |
Sarah Sears commissions John Sargent to paint a portrait of her six year old daughter, Helen. The painting is on display at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. A charcoal sketch by Sargent of Helen at age 17 is reproduced in Sargent Portrait Drawings. |
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| 1898/00/00 |
Harvey D Parker |
In Memoriam |
Harvey D Parker leaves $100,000 to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Established in 1898, the Harvey Drury Parker fund saved the Department of Prints that was threaten with extinction. |
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| 1909/00/00 |
Guy Lowell |
Architect |
Museum of Fine Arts Boston moves from Copley Square in their new building. |
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| 1917/00/00 |
Quincy Adams Shaw |
Benefactor |
"The Sower" is made a gift of Quincy Adams Shaw through Quincy Adams Shaw Jr and Mrs Marian Shaw Haughton, to the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. |
The Sower |
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| 1917/00/00 |
William Lindsey |
Benefactor |
William Lindsey establishes the Leslie Lindsey Mason Collection by donating gifts 560 musical instruments to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, where he is a trustee. |
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