Painting
- Title:
- Ruth Ayer Green
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 1913.016.02
- Creator:
- Unknown
- Date:
- circa 1810
- Description:
- Portrait of Ruth Ayer Green (1753-1823), artist unknown, c. 1810. Oil on canvas. Three quarter length portrait of a woman, facing slightly right; eyes toward viewer. Sitter is wearing a white cap with a bow on top, white fichu, string of pearls on neck, long black pelisse or dress with black lace at wrists. She is seated in Windsor chair; sitter's left hand on arm of chair; sitter's right hand on lap. Dark green background. Unsigned. Paper label with typed inscription on reverse: "RUTH AYER GREEN / Wife of DR. PETER GREEN". Gilded gesso over thin wood frame, low-relief foliate carving exterior.
- Material:
- Textile
Canvas - Dimensions:
- H-35.5 W-26 inches
- Provenance:
- Dr. Green's youngest child, Clarissa Dwight, married Dr. Thomas Chadbourne, who also was a practicing physician of Concord for nearly fifty years. Dr. and Mrs. Chadbourne were the grandparents of the donor, Anna Berry Smith.
Ruth Ayer was born December 4, 1753, in Haverhill, MA, daughter of Samuel Ayer and Ann Hazen Ayer. Sister of Capt. Richard Ayer and Hannah Ayer Bradley. She married Dr. Peter Green in 1773. They had 13 children: 5 sons and 8 daughters. She died April 12, 1823 in Concord. - Credit Line:
- Gift of Anna Berry Smith
- Subjects:
- Green, Ruth Ayer, Portrait paintings, Portraits
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