The Providence Athenæum

John Russell Bartlett was a critical founding member of the Providence Athenæum as well as an essential figure in Rhode Island’s history. This painting is by James Sullivan Lincoln of Providence, a long-time acquaintance and friend of Bartlett and a noted nineteenth-century portrait artist. Lincoln was an important member of the art community and served as the first president of the Providence Art Club.

The painting was donated by Elisha Capron Mowry, Bartlett's grandson-in-law in 1964.

Lancaster, Jane. Inquire Within: A Social History of the Providence Athenæum Since 1753. Providence Athenæum, 2003, pp. 38-40, 43-44, 61, 65, 86.

"John Russell Bartlett."  The Providence Athenæum, 2019, www.providenceathenaeum.org/collections/art-collection/painting/.  Accessed 26 June 2019.

Wodehouse, Kate. "John Russell Bartlett: Projector of the Providence Athenæum in 1831." The Universal Penman, Spring 2016, pp. 5-9.

Redmond, Quinn. “John Russell Bartlett as an Old Man.” 2016. ARTH 401: Cataloguing Curiosity, Wheaton College, student paper.

Bartlett, John Russell.  Autobiography of John Russell Bartlett, 1805-1886. Edited by Jerry E. Mueller, Providence, John Carter Brown Library, 2006.