Painting

Title:

Dr. Peter Green

Object Name:

Painting

Object ID:

1913.016.01

Creator:

Unknown

Date:

circa 1810

Description:

Portrait of Dr. Peter Green (1746-1828), artist unknown, c. 1810. Oil on canvas on masonite. Half length portrait of a man, facing slightly left. Sitter has white hair brushed forward and blue eyes. He is wearing a black coat, and white cravat with ruff. He is seated in Windsor chair; holding a book, "Thomas's Practice," in sitter's right hand; book has marbled paper cover and gilding on spine. Dark green background. Paper label with typed inscription on the reverse: "DR. PETER GREEN / Harvard 1766 / Concord, N.H. Physician". Gilded gesso over thin wood frame, low-relief foliate carving exterior.

Material:

Textile
Canvas
Masonite

Dimensions:

H-35.4 W-26 inches

Provenance:

Dr. Green's youngest child, Clarissa Dwight, married Dr. Thomas Chadbourne, who also was a practicing physician of Concord for nearly fifty years. Dr. and Mrs. Chadbourne were the grandparents of the donor, Anna Berry Smith.

Peter Green was born October 1, 1745, in Lancaster, MA. Graduated from Harvard, 1766. Began medical practice in Lancaster. Married Martha Clark, who died in 1770, a year after marriage. Married Elizabeth, daughter of Colonel John Bulkley of Groton, MA, and in 1772 moved to Concord, NH, where she died in August, 1774. His third wife was Ruth, daughter of Samuel Ayer of Haverhill. He died March 31, 1828, age 83, after 56 years of practice in Concord.

He was one of the first members of the New Hampshire Medical Society (and may have been one of the founding members) and honorary member of the Massachusetts Medical Society. His practice was distinguished for great simplicity of medicines; he was moderate in his charges and neglectful of their collection: a temperate man in an intemperate age.

Credit Line:

Gift of Anna Berry Smith

People:

Green, Peter (1745-1828)

Subjects:

Doctors, Green, Peter, Medical education, Medicine, Physicians, Portrait paintings, Portraits