Painting
- Title:
- Phebe E. Sawyer
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 1946.028.02
- Creator:
- Conner, James L. (1819-1892)
Artist - Place of Origin:
- Concord, NH
- Date:
- 1856
- Description:
- Portrait of Phebe Elliott Sawyer (1801-1855), by James L. Conner (1819-1892), 1856. Oil on canvas. Half-length portrait of a woman, facing slightly right; looking toward viewer. Sitter has brown hair, parted nearly in the middle, brown eyes, and an oval-shaped face. She wears a black dress with full sleeves, white collar, and oval brooch at collar. Brown background. Painted inscription on reverse: "PAINTED 1856". Gilded gesso over molded wood frame.
- Material:
- Textile
Canvas
Wood - Dimensions:
- H-27 W-22 inches
- Provenance:
- Donor was distantly related to John Sawyer's second wife Hannah Hale.
Phebe Elliott Sawyer was the daughter of Joseph and Dorcas Elliott, sister of Theodore F. Elliott, millwright. Born in 1801, Penacook, NH. Married John Sawyer, a carpenter and large landowner, in 1833. They had one son, Warren P. Sawyer, born in 1835, died in 1854 of consumption. Phebe died in 1855, also of consumption. - Credit Line:
- Gift of Philip H. Cook
- Subjects:
- Sawyer, Phebe, Death, Memento, Portraits, Portrait paintings
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