Painting
- Title:
- General Enoch Poor
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 1926.007.02
- Creator:
- Straw, Jennie E. (1856-1933) -- Artist; Tenney, Ulysses D. (1826-1908) -- Artist; Kosciusko, Thaddeus (1746-1817) -- Artist
- Place of Origin:
- Concord, NH
- Date:
- 1884
- Description:
- Portrait of General Enoch Poor (1736-1780), by Jennie E. Straw (1856-1930), 1884. Oil on canvas. Half-length profile portrait of a man, facing right. Sitter has brown hair in queue. He is wearing a black tri-corn hat, blue and yellow uniform, gold epaulets, blue sash, gold buttons, white ruffle and cravat. Graduated brown background. Inscription in black paint on reverse: "Gen. Poor / Painted 1884 by Jennie E. Straw after W.G. (sic) Tenney 1873 / After Kosciusko." Unframed.
- Material:
- Textile
Canvas - Dimensions:
- H-30 W-25 inches
- Provenance:
- Painted after the portrait in the State House by U. D. Tenney, 1873, after the miniature by Kosciusko (1907.016.02).
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Purchase
- People:
- Tenney, Ulysses D. (1826-1908), Kosciusko, Thaddeus (1746-1817), Poor, Enoch (1736-1780), Straw, Jennie E. (1856-1933), Cilley, Harry B. (1862-1931)
- Subjects:
- Generals, Merchants, Military officers, Portrait paintings, Portraits, Shipbuilding
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