Painting
- Title:
- Samuel Eastman
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 1914.025
- Creator:
- Powers, Marion (1880-1963)
Artist - Place of Origin:
- Boston, MA
- Date:
- 1906-1914
- Description:
- Portrait of Samuel C. Eastman (1837-1917), by Marion Powers (1880-1963), 1906-1914. Oil on canvas. Three-quarter-length portrait of a man seated facing slightly left; eyes toward viewer. Sitter has white hair, white moustache, and large blue eyes. He is wearing a black coat, black waistcoat, black trousers, a white shirt with corners turned down, a maroon four-in-hand tie, watch fob on waistcoat, oval pin on tie, and gold circular cuff links. He is holding a book in his left hand; eyeglasses in his right hand. Books at right. Green background. Pencil inscription top frame reverse: "3541 Metal 501 Tone 53231." Stamped inscription: "NEWCOMB MACKLIN CO. CHICAGO & NEW YORK". Brass nameplate on frame : "Samuel C. Eastman. / Marion Powers." Gilded gesso over wood frame, with stylized fleur de lys with floral scrolls corners, center shells with foliate scrolls.
- Material:
- Textile
Canvas - Dimensions:
- H-40 W-30 inches
- Provenance:
- Samuel C. Eastman was a lawyer, born July 11, 1837, Concord, NH. A.M., Brown University, 1857. LLB, Harvard, 1859. Married Mary Clifford Greene of Providence, RI, 1861. Admitted to bar 1859, practiced in Concord. He was president of Concord Mutual Fire Ins. Co., NH Savings Bank, Concord & Portsmouth R.R., and other companies. Member of Concord Board of Education for 12 years, city treasurer, NH House of Representatives, 1883 (speaker) and 1893. NH Bar Assoc. (pres. 1905). Served as corresponding secretary, librarian, and president of NHHS and was instrumental in establishing location of new building. Author of "White Mountain Guide Book." Died in Concord, Aug. 31, 1917.
- Credit Line:
- Bequest of Mary Eastman
- Subjects:
- Authors, Banking, Banking industry, Banks, Eastman, Samuel, Lawyers, Librarians, Politicians, Railroad employees, Railroads, Secretaries
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