Painting
- Title:
- Moses Sawyer
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 1954.018
- Creator:
- Unknown
- Date:
- circa 1828
- Description:
- Portrait of Rev. Moses Sawyer (1776-1847), unknown artist, c. 1828. Oil on canvas. Half-length portrait of a man, facing slightly right; eyes toward viewer. Sitter has light hair brushed forward at sides and blue eyes. He is wearing a black coat and waist coat, black tied cravat, and white shirt with standing collar. Secretary with a glazed door at left background; filled with books. Unsigned. Mahogany veneer frame.
- Material:
- Textile
Canvas - Dimensions:
- H-27 W-22 inches
- Provenance:
- Moses Sawyer (1776-1847) was the great-grandfather of the donor, Philip H. Cook (1878-1954).
Moses Sawyer was a clergyman, born March 11, 1776, son of Deacon Moses and Ann Fitz Sawyer of Salisbury, NH. Graduated from Dartmouth in 1799. Read divinity with Rev. Asa Burton of Thetford, VT. Ordained pastor of the "Calvinistic Congregational Society in Henniker" May 26,1802. Left Henniker in 1826 and went to Scarborough, ME, Gloucester and Saugus, MA, for brief periods. Health failing, he retired to Boscawen, NH, for a time and then to Ipswich, MA, where he died of paralysis, Aug. 26, 1847. - Credit Line:
- Bequest of Philip H. Cook
- Subjects:
- Sawyer, Moses, Portrait paintings, Portraits, Pastors, Clergymen
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