Painting
- Title:
- Betsey Walker
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 1926.017.02
- Creator:
- Unknown
- Date:
- circa 1850
- Description:
- Portrait of Betsey Walker (1790-1862), unknown artist, c.1850. Watercolor on paper. Three-quarter length oval portrait of a woman. Sitter has brown center-parted hair and blue eyes. She is wearing a black long-sleeve dress with white collar, large black brooch, and gold watch fob necklace. She is sitting in a black tuft-upholstery arm chair. Brown and gray graduated background. Gilded gesso over oval molded wood frame, paper mat with gilded border.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-18 W-15 inches
- Provenance:
- Betsey (Gay) Walker (1790-1862) was born in Salem, MA, married William Walker (1786-1858) at Haverhill, MA, in 1808. The lived in Chester, Amoskeag, Andover, and Concord, NH, where William Walker kept taverns.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of George H. Silsby
- Subjects:
- Taverns, Stables, Transportation, Walker, Betsey
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