Painting
- Title:
- Wentworth, Martha Hilton
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 1957.065.05.13
- Creator:
- Unknown
- Date:
- circa 1775
- Description:
- Portrait possibly of Martha Wentworth (1737-1805), artist unknown, c. 1775. Oil on canvas. Three-quarter-length portrait of a woman with blue eyes and white wig. Sitter is wearing a straw hat decorated with flowers and lace, pink gown with flowers, lace at neckline and sleeves, white lace petticoat, pearl drop earrings, strand of pearls in hair, pearl necklace, two pearl bracelets on wrists, and pin with drops on bodice. Sitter's right hand holds an elongated wooden object and rests on a pedestal with columnar base. Sitter's left hand holds a basket of flowers. Dark brown background. Unsigned. Oak frame with interior gilding, large carved rococo-style cartouche on top and two large corner leaves.
- Material:
- Textile
Canvas - Dimensions:
- H-40.625 W-30.5 inches
- Provenance:
- Wentworth Cruger Bacon (b. 1880), son of Katherine P. Storrow and Francis McNeil Bacon, inherited from them the portrait of "Lady Wentworth."
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Katharine Prentis Murphy and Edmund Astley Prentis Jr., in Memory of David Edward Murphy
- People:
- Wentworth, Martha (1737-1805), Murphy, Katharine Prentis (1882-1967), Prentis, Edmund Astley, Jr. (1883-1967), Murphy, David E. (1859-1919)
- Subjects:
- Wentworth, Martha Hilton, Clothing & dress
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