Painting

Title:

Nathaniel Bouton

Object Name:

Painting

Object ID:

1873.002

Creator:

Tenney, Adna (1810-1900)Artist

Place of Origin:

Concord, NH

Date:

1873

Description:

Portrait of Rev. Nathaniel Bouton (1799-1878), by Adna Tenney (1810-1900), 1873. Oil on canvas. Vertical rectangle composition with gilded oval mat. Bust-length portrait of a man, facing slightly left; eyes toward viewer. Sitter has curly brown hair and blue eyes. He is wearing eyeglasses, blue coat and waistcoat, white shirt with standing collar, and white stock. Red chair lower right. Graduated gray and green background. Signed in pencil on stretcher: "Painted by A. Tenney, 1873". Gilded gesso over wood frame, cluster column exterior molding, fruit and foliage corner decorations, vertical stripe cove; wooden gilded mat with incised geometric corner decorations.

Material:

Textile
Canvas

Dimensions:

H-30 W-25 inches

Provenance:

Gift of the family of Nathaniel Bouton.

Nathaniel Bouton was born in Norwalk, CT, June 20, 1799. He was apprenticed to a printer, but decided to enter the ministry. He graduated from Yale in 1820, and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1824. He accepted a call from the North Congregational Society, Concord, NH, and was ordained March 23, 1825. He was an active member of many ecclesiastical, benevolent, and educational institutions, trustee of Dartmouth College, corresponding secretary of NHHS, etc. He published a history of Concord in 1856. In 1866, he retired from the ministry and was appointed State Historian. During the next 10 years, he edited 10 volumes of Provincial and State Papers, which were published by the state. He died June 6, 1878, age 79.

Credit Line:

Gift of Joab N. Patterson and the Bouton Family

People:

Bouton, Nathaniel (1799-1878), Tenney, Adna (1810-1900), Patterson, Joab N. (1835-1923)

Subjects:

Bouton, Nathaniel, Printers, Ministers, Congregational churches, Secretaries, Authors, Historians, Editor