Painting
- Title:
- Untitled
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 1957.014.01
- Creator:
- Unknown
- Date:
- circa 1880
- Description:
- Portrait of a Colonial man, unknown artist, c. 1880. Oil on paper. Bust-length oval portrait of man in profile to left. Oval composition on vertical rectangle canvas with blue painted spandrels. Sitter has dark gray hair tied in back and brown eyes. He is wearing a red coat and waistcoat both with white buttons, white ruff shirt and cravat, and black tricorne hat with black cockade. Brown background. Exterior and interior gilded trim frame with center parquetry paper decoration; colors are dark brown, orange, and yellow, matted and glazed.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-9.75 W-8.6 inches
- Provenance:
- One of a pair (man and woman) that once hung in the house of Hiram Thompson (1743-1812) of Woburn, MA (where Benjamin Thompson was born). Said to have been taken to Charlestown, NH.
- Credit Line:
- Bequest of Mary Hendrick Kittredge
- Subjects:
- Kittredge, Benjamin
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