Painting
- Title:
- Dorcas Ferrin Huse
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 1970.001.14
- Creator:
- Jennys, William (1774-1859)
Artist - Place of Origin:
- Enfield, NH
- Date:
- circa 1810
- Description:
- Portrait of Dorcas Ferrin Huse (1777-1816), attributed to William Jennys (1774-1859), c. 1810. Oil on canvas. Half-length portrait of a woman in profile to right with head turned toward viewer. Sitter has center parted black hair, black eyebrows, and brown eyes. She is wearing a gold diamond-shaped clip earrings, gold necklace, white shift with lace ruffle, and black Empire-style dress with blue sash. Brown background. Unsigned.
- Material:
- Textile
Canvas - Dimensions:
- H-22 W-18 inches
- Provenance:
- Mrs. Mabel Nancy Putnam Gallagher's (b. 1892) letter to the NHHS in 1980 states that her great-grandmother was Dorcas Ferrin. Mrs. Gallagher explains that this painting passed from Dorcas Ferrin to her daughter, Nancy Huse Putnam (b. 1812). Then to Nancy Putnam's daughter, Nelly Williams. Nelly Williams passed the painting to her brother, Charles H. Putnam (1846-1940), father of Mrs. Mabel Nancy Putnam Gallagher. At some point after Charles Putnam's ownership, the painting went missing and was found at the Enfield School House.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Nellie L. Pierce
- Subjects:
- Huse, Dorcas Ferrin, Portraits, Portrait paintings, Clothing & dress
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