Drawing
- Title:
- Daniel Prior
- Object Name:
- Drawing
- Object ID:
- 1925.005 b
- Creator:
- Hirschmann, Franz Ludwig (1775-1821)
Artist - Place of Origin:
- Possibly Nantucket, MA
- Date:
- 1793
- Description:
- Portrait of Daniel Prior (1760-1808), attributed to Franz Ludwig Hirschmann (1775-1821), 1793. Pastel crayon on paper. Three-quarter length portrait of a man, facing slightly right; eyes towards viewer. Sitter has gray hair, curled at sides, tied in queue; gray eyes. Wearing gray coat and trousers, blue and white striped waistcoat, watch fob with signet, white ruff and cravat. Seated in chair, right arm on writing or card table with blue baize top; left hand in waistcoat. Window and blue drapery in background. Wooden backboard, signed in ink: "Hirschman / Pinx 1793". Black marker on frame and backboard: "-PRIOR-". Molded wood frame, painted black, gilded interior; glazed.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-20 W-14.4 inches
- Provenance:
- According to a letter from the donor, Arcturus Z. Conrad, this portrait came from the house in Amherst, NH, known as the McKean residence, formerly owned by the donor. This house had been the home of Daniel Prior and was later owned by Isaac P. McKean (b. 1812) who married Prior's niece, Elizabeth W. Gardner (b. 1806).
Capt. Prior was born in Nantucket, 1760. Married Abigail (b. 1760), daughter of Capt. Nathaniel Woodbury in 1784. Purchased a house on the plain in Amherst, NH, in 1799 and kept a grocery and dry goods store there, and a post-office 1803-8. In 1802 he commenced the manufacture of twine in a building he had erected on the farm of his father-in-law. He was one of the directors of the Hillsborough Bank, incorporated in 1806. He was captain of the ship the Abigail. He died in Amherst, Oct. 11, 1808. - Credit Line:
- Gift of Arcturus Z. Conrad
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