(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Isabella Stewart Gardner in the Greenhouse at Green Hill, Brookline, Massachusetts

primary Thomas E. Marr and Son (active Boston, 1910-1942)

photographer Thomas E. Marr (Canadian-American, 1849 - 1910)

photographer Arthur E. Marr (American, 1877 - 1954)

subject Isabella Stewart Gardner (New York, 1840 - 1924, Boston)

Date1894-1919

Place MadeBrookline, Massachusetts, United States, North America

MediumGelatin silver print

Dimensions18.6 x 24 cm (7 5/16 x 9 7/16 in.)

ClassificationsPhotographs

Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Accession numberARC.010047

eMuseum ID724834

Other NumberARC.008033

TMS Source ID27799

Last Updated8/9/24

Status

Not on view

Web CommentaryIsabella Stewart Gardner was an avid horticulturalist and maintained extensive gardens at her residence in Brookline, Massachusetts called Green Hill. Her husband Jack inherited Green Hill from his parents in 1884, and Isabella transformed the landscape of 40 acres with gardens reflecting her travels. In this photograph, Isabella is in one of the property’s greenhouses where she and the estate’s Head Gardener, Charles Montague Atkinson, grew plants like the azaleas seen here.

MarksNotesOn photograph (bottom left, recto): 2246

ProvenanceNotesProbably commissioned by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the photographic firm Thomas E. Marr and Son between 1894 and 1919.