Painting
- Title:
- Josiah Gardner Davis
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 1978.080.01
- Creator:
- Bundy, Horace (1814-1883)
- Date:
- circa 1860
- Description:
- Portrait of Reverend Josiah Gardner Davis, attributed to Horace Bundy (1814-1883) c. 1860. Oil on canvas. Half-length portrait of man, facing slightly left. Sitter has short gray hair and brown eyes. He is wearing a black coat and waist coat, black stock, and white shirt with standing collar. He is seated in a red-upholstered chair; holding, with sitter's left hand, a red book with gilded decoration; book is titled "Holy Bible" on spine. Dark brown background. Unsigned. Gilded gesso over molded wood frame.
- Material:
- Textile
Canvas - Dimensions:
- H-30.25 W-25.1 inches
- Provenance:
- Purchased by the donors at the Spalding Estate Auction, Amherst, New Hampshire in 1966.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Francis E. Whaland
- Subjects:
- Ministers, Congregational churches, Portrait paintings, Portraits
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