Painting
- Title:
- Lydia Cogswell Wentworth
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 1938.002.02
- Creator:
- Peterson, Henry E. C. (1841-1918)
Artist ; Hoit, Albert Gallatin (1809-1856) - Date:
- 1904
- Description:
- Portrait of Lydia Cogswell Wentworth (1793-1872), by Henry E. C. Peterson (1841-1918), 1904. Oil on canvas. Half-length portrait of a woman, facing slightly left; eyes toward viewer. Sitter has black center-parted hair with side curls, black eyebrows, and blue eyes. She is wearing wire-rim eyeglasses, white lace cap tied under chin, lace collar, black dress, gray shawl with floral designs, and black enamel pin on bodice. Sitter's right hand is holding the shawl; gold ring with rectangular center on sitter's right-hand finger. Red-upholstered armchair right. Signed, right center edge: " 1904 / H.E.C. Peterson / After A.C. Holt. / 1847". Gilded gesso over wood frame, large leaves, floral and foliate c-scroll corner designs, interior scrolling design.
- Material:
- Textile
Canvas - Dimensions:
- H-30 W-24.5 inches
- Provenance:
- Painted by H. E. C. Peterson, 1904, in WPA project. Copied from the Albert Gallatin Hoit portrait of 1847.
Lydia Cogswell Wentworth, wife of Capt. Paul Wentworth (1782-1855), born Dover 1793, died Concord 1872. - Credit Line:
- Gift of Roxana Bowen Wentworth
- People:
- Wentworth, Lydia Cogswell (1793-1872), Hoit, Albert Gallatin (1809-1856), Peterson, Henry E. C. (1841-1918)
- Subjects:
- Wentworth, Lydia Cogswell, Portrait paintings, Portraits
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