Painting
- Title:
- Elizabeth P. Hutchins
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 1991.037.02
- Creator:
- Tenney, Adna (1810-1900)
Artist - Place of Origin:
- Concord, NH
- Date:
- circa 1852
- Description:
- Portrait of Elizabeth (Partridge) Hutchins (1767-1853), attributed to Adna Tenney (1810-1900), c. 1852. Oil on canvas. Half-length portrait of a woman, seated facing slightly right; eyes forward. Sitter has center-parted brown hair and brown eyes. She is wearing a white cap with side ruffles tied under her chin, white fichu, black dress with high waist, and long black shawl; she holds her eyeglasses in her hands. She is sitting on a black-upholstered arm chair with decorative crest rail. Brown graduated background. Unsigned. Gilded gesso over wood frame, corner cartouches with shell, foliate vines. Printed paper label affixed to top stretcher member: "Edgar A. Goss / Successor to B. Wentworth / Gilder / Antique Mirrors Restored / 609 Ma[rket] Street, / Above Hartford Market / Hartford Conn".
- Material:
- Textile
Canvas - Dimensions:
- H-33 W-28 inches
- Provenance:
- Robert H. Schutz, Jr. was the great-great- grandson of Abel and Elizabeth (Partridge) Hutchins.
- Credit Line:
- Bequest of Robert H. Schutz, Jr.
- Subjects:
- Hutchins, Elizabeth, Portraits, Portrait paintings
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