Painting

Title:

Greeley, Joseph

Object Name:

Painting

Object ID:

1951.019.01

Creator:

Unknown

Place of Origin:

Nashua, NH or Boston, MA

Date:

circa 1840

Description:

Portrait of Joseph Greeley (1797-1882), unknown artist, c. 1840. Oil on canvas. Half-length portrait of man, facing slightly left; looking toward viewer. Sitter has short black hair and brown eyes. He is wearing a black coat and waistcoat, gold watch fob, white shirt with turn-down collar, and tied black cravat. Sitter's right arm resting on a chair back; sitter's right hand and shirt cuff visible. Brown background. Unsigned. Gilded gesso over molded wood frame, applied shells with scrolls and floral bands at corners, interior foliate band.

Material:

Textile
Canvas

Dimensions:

H-28 W-23 inches

Provenance:

Joseph Greeley was born in Hudson, NH, July 7, 1797, son of Moses Greeley (1764-1848) and Mary Derby Greeley (1778-1856); married Charlotte Pollard, Dec. 7, 1818. He was a director of the Nashua & Lowell R.R. Co., 1836-40. This was the first NH railroad, incorporated 1835. Greeley was a resident of Concord in 1848 and was one of the directors of a railroad company chartered in that year, which was to run from Concord to the Connecticut, later the Sugar River R.R. to Claremont. He died in Nashua, NH, Nov. 17, 1882.

Credit Line:

Gift of Elsie R. Sewall

People:

Greeley, Joseph (1797-1856), Sewall, Elsie R. (1887-1983)

Subjects:

Greeley, Joseph, Manufacturers, Merchants, Entrepreneurs, Businessmen, Railroads