Painting

Title:

Paul Wentworth

Object Name:

Painting

Object ID:

1938.002.01

Creator:

Peterson, Henry E. C. (1841-1918)Artist; Copy After Albert Gallatin Hoit

Date:

1904

Description:

Portrait of Paul Wentworth (1782-1855), by Henry E. C. Peterson (1841-1918), 1904. Oil on canvas. Bust-length portrait of a man facing right; eyes toward viewer. Sitter has white hair, sideburns, and eyebrows; blue eyes. He is wearing a black coat and waistcoat, white tied cravat, and white shirt with flat frill. He is seated on a red chair, lower left. Dark brown background. Signed right of sitter's shoulder: "1904 / H.E.C.Peterson / after / A.G.Hoit. / 1847". Fragment of paper label on frame reverse: "5680", and a NHHS label lower right. Gilded gesso over wood frame, acanthus leaves, c-scrolls and floral vines corners, c-scroll foliate center, plain cove, small beaded interior trim.

Material:

Textile
Canvas

Dimensions:

H-30 W-24.9 inches

Provenance:

Painted by H. E. C. Peterson, 1904, in WPA project. Copied from the Albert Gallatin Hoit portrait of 1847.

Paul Wentworth, born Dover 1782, Captain 4th Infantry 1808 at Newcastle (Fort Constitution), commanding entrance to Portsmouth Harbor. Postmaster, Selectman, Representative in the Legislature, and merchant in Sandwich, NH, where he died 1855. Son of John Wentworth Jr. and Margaret Frost. Descended from Ezekiel, son of William "the emigrant".

Credit Line:

Gift of Roxana Bowen Wentworth

People:

Wentworth, Paul (1782-1855), Peterson, Henry E. C. (1841-1918)

Subjects:

Wentworth, Paul, Postmasters, Merchants, Military officers