Painting
- Title:
- Marianna S. Downing
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 1971.057
- Date:
- 1850
- Description:
- Portrait of Marianna M. Downing (1822-1859), unidentified artist, 1850. Oil on canvas. Bust-length oval portrait of woman. Sitter has dark brown hair parted in center and brown eyes. She is wearing a black dress, white eyelet-embroidered collar, and oval brooch. Grey and brown background. Paper label with typed inscription frame reverse: "Marrianna Maria Sanborn was the daughter of James Sanborn, Concord, N.H. / and Mary F. Houghton, Bolton, Mass., both Quakers, married in Quaker / ceremony at Weare, N.H. / Marrianna married Alonzo Downing, of the Abbot-Downing Company, Concord. / She was born 1822; died 1859 in Concord, N.H." Also illegible pencil inscription top member of stretcher. Gilded gesso over oval wood frame, foliate s-scroll exterior, ovals, and foliate interior.
- Material:
- Textile
Canvas - Dimensions:
- H-26.6 W-20.5 inches
- Provenance:
- The donor, Mae G. McLeod, purchased the painting in 1959 from Mrs. Enid H. Bilsborough, Concord, NH. The painting was handed down from her relatives. The sitter, Marianna Downing, was Mrs. Bilsborough's great aunt. Family lore suggests that this painting was painted by the inventor and artist, Samuel F.B. Morse.
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Purchase
- Subjects:
- Portrait paintings, Portraits
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