Painting
- Title:
- Untitled
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 1929.013
- Creator:
- Unknown
- Date:
- circa 1840
- Description:
- Portrait of unknown woman, possibly Abigail Johnson Morgan (1770-1859), unknown artist, c. 1840. Oil on canvas. Portrait of a woman, facing viewer. Sitter has blue eyes and brown center-parted hair. She is wearing a green dress with white pleated collar, full sleeves, white cap tied under her chin, and oval metal-rim glasses. Unsigned. Label from donor on stretcher reads "John C. Thorne / 216 N. Main Street / Concord, NH." Gilded gesso over molded wood frame.
- Material:
- Textile
Canvas - Dimensions:
- H-30.25 W-25.25 inches
- Provenance:
- This portrait (1929.013) was possibly given to NHHS at the time of the donor's death. Both John C. Thorne (b. 1842) and his wife, Mary G. Nichols Thorne (b. 1852) died in 1929. He was survived by his daughter, Elsie Chandler Hayes (b. 1887), daughter of Elizabeth Ferguson and Henry Chandler; raised by Mary G. Nichols Thorne and John C. Thorne.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of the Estate of John Calvin Thorne
- Subjects:
- Grandmothers, Portrait paintings, Portraits
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