Painting
- Title:
- Margaret Holyoke Johnson
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 1971.018
- Creator:
- Tenney, Adna (1810-1900)
Artist - Place of Origin:
- Manchester, NH
- Date:
- 1853
- Description:
- Portrait of Margaret Holyoke Abbot Johnson (1827-1854), by Adna Tenney (1810-1900), 1853. Oil on canvas. Bust-length portrait of a young woman. Oval portrait on a vertical rectangle canvas with dark brown painted spandrels. Sitter has brown hair and brown eyes. She is wearing red dress with vertical black ribbon on bodice, brass buttons, gold brooch at neck, and black shawl draped around shoulders. Brown background. Painted on the reverse in black: "Margaret H. Johnson / Age 2[6] / A. Tinney Pinxt / Feb 1853." Carved oak frame with foliate exterior, large high-relief beaded trim interior, textured gilded spandrels.
- Material:
- Textile
Canvas - Dimensions:
- H-27.25 W-22.25 inches
- Provenance:
- Note in the accession file states that the donor's wife, Elizabeth Center Hodgdon (1895-1968), was the granddaughter of Elizabeth M. Abbot Newell (b. 1834). Elizabeth M. Abbot Newell was Margaret H. Abbot Johnson's younger sister.
- Credit Line:
- Bequest of Robert E. Hodgdon
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