Barnes, Bartholomew & Company
Triple-Decker Shelf Clock
1829-1839
Physical Qualities
Wood, glass, metal, paint, gilt, Clock without finial: 35 x 17 1/2 x 6 in. (88.9 x 44.5 x 15.2 cm) With finial: 37 x 17 1/2 x 6 in. 94 x 44.5 x 15.2 cm)
Credit Line
Bequest of Alice Worthington Ball
Object Number
1929.20.5
Carved eagle splat
In the late 1880s/ early 1890s Alice Worthington Ball studied at the Museum School of Drawing and Painting at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts with Frank Benson and Ed Tarbell, members of "The Ten". She continued in Paris at the Academy Colorrosi under Louis-Joseph-Raphael Collin and Gustave-Claude-Etienne Courtois and later to Egmond, Holland where she studied with George Hitchcock, until his death in 1913.
Ball spent the last years of her life in Baltimore. This is one of two Bristol, Conn shelf clocks she left to the BMA (1929.20.4) . Both by companies in partnership with Philip Barns.
In 1930 there was an auction sale of her belongings, the sale records of which are in the MdHS (MHS 5476.B1846). These clocks obviously donated before this sale.
Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest of Alice Worthington Ball, Barns, Bartholomew & Company, Bristol, Conneticuit, 1833-1836
Ball spent the last years of her life in Baltimore. This is one of two Bristol, Conn shelf clocks she left to the BMA (1929.20.4) . Both by companies in partnership with Philip Barns.
In 1930 there was an auction sale of her belongings, the sale records of which are in the MdHS (MHS 5476.B1846). These clocks obviously donated before this sale.
Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest of Alice Worthington Ball, Barns, Bartholomew & Company, Bristol, Conneticuit, 1833-1836
Artist
Barnes, Bartholomew & Company
1832–1835
American, 1833 - 1836
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