Painting
- Title:
- John Wentworth
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 1971.001
- Creator:
- Healy, G. P. A. (1813-1894)
Artist - Date:
- 1858
- Description:
- Portrait of John Wentworth (1815-1885), by G. P. A. Healy (1813-1894), 1858. Oil on canvas. Bust-length portrait of a man facing left; looking toward viewer. Sitter has brown hair parted on right. He is wearing a white shirt, black flowing tie, black coat and waistcoat. Graduated green background. Signed in red, upper right corner: "G.P.A. Healy. / 1858." Gilded gesso over molded frame.
- Material:
- Textile
Canvas - Dimensions:
- H-30 W-25 inches
- Provenance:
- Roxan[n]a Atwater Wentworth Bowen is daughter of sitter, John Wentworth of Chicago. Roxana Wentworth Van Rensselaer Vereker is granddaughter of sitter.
John Wentworth was born in Sandwich, NH, 1815, son of Paul and Lydia Cogswell Wentworth. Graduated Dartmouth, 1836, and moved to Chicago. L.L.D., 1867. Married Roxanna Marie Loomis, 1844. Descended from Ezekiel Wentworth (seventh generation). - Credit Line:
- Bequest of Roxana Atwater Wentworth Bowen
- Subjects:
- Wentworth, John
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