Painting

Title:

Daniel Burleigh

Object Name:

Painting

Object ID:

1926.005.01

Creator:

Ingalls, Walter (1805-1874)Artist

Place of Origin:

Tilton, NH

Date:

circa 1850

Description:

Portrait of Daniel Burleigh (1777-1855), by Walter Ingalls (1805-1874), c. 1850. Oil on canvas. Half-length portrait of a man, facing very slightly left; eyes toward viewer. Sitter has white hair, gray eyebrows, blue eyes, and double chin with dimple. He is wearing a black coat and waistcoat, white shirt with low standing collar, and narrow black cravat tied in bow. Pencil inscription on stretcher reverse: "Weeks", and "A. Weeks [ ]ish" on frame reverse. Graduated gray background. Gilded gesso over wood frame with corner and center shell and cartouches with floral vines.

Material:

Textile
Canvas

Dimensions:

H-27 W-22.25 inches

Provenance:

The donor, Mary Sanborn Whitelaw, was the great-granddaughter of Daniel Burleigh (1777-1855) and the granddaughter of Sarah Coffin Burleigh (1816-1881).

Daniel Burleigh was a farmer in Sanbornton, NH.

According to family tradition, this portrait was thought to have been painted in 1834. However, based on other Ingalls portraits, this portrait appears to have been painted in the 1840s and it exhibits none of the characteristics of the earlier period.

The "A. Weeks" whose name appears on the reverse of frame was either Agnes Burleigh Weeks, Sarah Coffin Burleigh's daughter, or Agnes' husband, Asa Weeks, possibly early owners of the portrait. The fact that they had no children would explain the portrait's descent in another line.

See 1926.005.02, portrait of Sarah Coffin Burleigh by Ingalls.

Credit Line:

Gift of Mary S. Whitelaw

People:

Burleigh, Daniel (1777-1855), Ingalls, Walter (1805-1874)

Subjects:

Burleigh, Daniel, Farmers, Portrait paintings, Portraits