Painting
- Title:
- Charles Burroughs
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 1969.079.07
- Creator:
- Billings, Edwin T. (1824-1893)
Artist - Date:
- 1868
- Description:
- Portrait of Charles Burroughs (1787-1868), by Edwin T. Billings (1824-1893), 1868. Oil on canvas. Three-quarter-length portrait of a man, facing left; eyes toward viewer. Sitter is bald with brown hair on sides; brown eyes. He is wearing circular wire-rimmed glasses, white shirt with fold-down collar, white stock, black coat, waistcoat and trousers. Sitter's left arm rests on table covered in a green cloth. Two books: one with red binding, one with brown binding sit on table. Sitter's right arm rests on leg. Brown background. Signed, lower right in red paint: "E.T. Billings". Pencil inscription on frame reverse: "Burroughs". Brass nameplate on frame: CHARLES BURROUGHS, D.D. PRESIDENT OF BD OF TRUSTEES 1855-1868." Gilded gesso over molded wood frame with twisted rope exterior, corner leaves and large flower, giraffe patterned cove.
- Material:
- Textile
Canvas - Dimensions:
- H-40 W-33.2 inches
- Provenance:
- The portrait was presented to the New Hampshire Asylum for the Insane by Charles Burroughs' widow, Ann Rindge Peirce Burroughs (1794-1877)
- Credit Line:
- Anonymous Gift
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