Painting

Title:

Old Jackson House

Object Name:

Painting

Object ID:

1974.056

Creator:

Foster, Sarah Haven (1827-1900)Artist

Place of Origin:

Portsmouth, NH

Date:

circa 1880

Description:

Landscape painting, Old Jackson House, attributed to Sarah Haven Foster (1827-1900), c. 1880. Oil on academy board. View of the Old Jackson House in Portsmouth, NH. Rear view of brown house with steeply pitched roof; large central chimney; lean-to addition at rear, sloping almost to ground; addition at each end, each with a chimney. Large green tree left of house. Harbor visible behind house on right. Large cumulus cloud in center of sky. Wood frame with gilded trim.

Material:

Academy board

Dimensions:

H-5.25 W-7.375 inches

Provenance:

Handwritten note, originally on back of frame, now in accession file: " 'Old Jackson House', Portsmouth, NH. 'The Oldest House in New Hampshire.' Built in 1664, by Richard Jackson. This picture was painted for Mrs. Martha March Cutts, a direct descendant of Richard Jackson, and the grandmother of Richard Eldridge Lyman in whose memory it is given to the Rhode Island Historical Society of which he was a member. The picture was painted for Mrs. Cutts by the artist, a duplicate of the one she painted for the Philadelphia Centennial in 1876, now belonging to the Portsmouth Historical Society."

Credit Line:

Gift of the Rhode Island Historical Society

People:

Foster, Sarah Haven (1827-1900), Jackson, Richard, Cutts, Martha March (1813-1896)

Subjects:

Jackson House, Portsmouth, NH, Landscape paintings