Painting
- Title:
- Hannah Reed Robinson
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 1950.010.02
- Creator:
- Ingalls, Walter (1805-1874)
Artist - Date:
- circa 1840
- Description:
- Portrait of Hannah Reed Robinson (1762-1840), by Walter Ingalls (1805-1874), c. 1840. Oil on canvas. Oval composition on a vertical rectangle canvas. Half-length portrait of a woman facing left; eyes toward viewer. She is wearing a fringed green shawl decorated with a foliate pattern over a long-sleeved black dress, sheer white cap with a green and white bow tied under her chin, gold beaded necklace, and a gold ring on her finger. The subject holds a folded green and gray fan in her left hand, left arm bent at the elbow. The background is mottled brown with pink, blue, and white clouds and dark brown painted spandrels. A handwritten label on frame reverse: "Hannah Reed Robinson" . A typed NHHS accession label on frame reverse and "Mrs. Hannah Reed Robinson wife of Rev. Otis Robinson Painted by Ingalls of Concord N.H. about 1842." Four typed or printed labels, on backing, have been applied by the conservator and describe the treatment and care. Gilded gesso over convex molded wood frame.
- Material:
- Textile
Canvas - Dimensions:
- H-29.25 W-24 inches
- Provenance:
- The donor, Mrs. Avis Whittemore Robinson, is a great-great granddaughter.
One of a pair of portraits said to represent Rev. Otis Robinson (1764-1835), a Baptist minister of Salisbury, NH, and his wife, Hannah Reed Robinson (1762-1840). Both were born in Attleboro, MA, and married there in 1785. In 1810, after living in Maine for 23 years, the Robinsons settled in Salisbury, NH, where Rev. Robinson served as the second pastor of the Baptist Church. He served from 1781-83 in the Second Massachusetts Regiment. He was a blacksmith and was not ordained until 1798.
Attributed by family tradition to Walter Ingalls (1805-1874). According to inscriptions of frames, the pair of portraits was painted by "Mr. Ingalls" in Concord in 1842. Ingalls is known to have worked in Concord briefly in 1834 and may have in other years as well. If the portraits were painted in 1842, they must have been done from earlier likenesses, as both subjects had died by 1840. Stylistically, the portraits relate more closely to Ingalls' work of the 1840s than to his work in the 1830s. - Credit Line:
- Gift of Avis W. Robinson
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