Painting
- Title:
- Frances Kimball Sawyer
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 1954.019
- Creator:
- Unknown
- Date:
- circa 1828
- Description:
- Portrait of Frances Kimball Sawyer (1776-1854), by unknown artist, c. 1828. Oil on canvas. Half-length portrait of a woman, facing slightly left; eyes toward viewer. Sitter has brown hair, curled at sides, and brown eyes. She is wearing a lace cap ruffled and tied under chin, layered ruff collar, and black dress. Cap has lace with pink and green floral design. Brown and orange background. Pencil inscription frame lower rail: " Boston 6 Shot [Illegible]". Unsigned. Mahogany veneer frame.
- Material:
- Textile
Canvas - Dimensions:
- H-27.1 W-22.1 inches
- Provenance:
- Frances (Kimball) Sawyer (1776-1854) was the great-grandmother of the donor, Philip H. Cook (1878-1954).
Mary Frances Kimball Sawyer married Rev. Moses Sawyer in Salisbury, NH, in 1802. She was born in 1776 and was the daughter of Capt. Peter Kimball and Elizabeth Thurston Kimball. She died on May 13, 1854 in Medford, MA. - Credit Line:
- Bequest of Philip H. Cook
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