Painting
- Title:
- Samuel Gilman
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 1918.007.01
- Creator:
- Unknown
- Date:
- 1811-1819
- Description:
- Miniature portrait of Samuel Gilman (1790-1858), unknown artist, 1810-1820. Watercolor on ivory. Bust-length oval portrait of a man, facing slightly left; eyes toward viewer. Sitter has gray hair, gray sideburns, and brown eyes. He is wearing a blue coat with brass buttons and white cravat tied in a bow. Brown background. On the reverse, grey braided hair insert with gold initials "SG" in center. Oval pink gold case, convex glazing, and raised interior edge.
- Material:
- Skeletal
Metal
Hair
Glass
Ivory - Dimensions:
- H-2.25 W-1.75 inches
- Provenance:
- Samuel Gilman (1790-1858), clergyman and author, was born in Gloucester, MA, son of Frederick Gilman, a native of Exeter, NH. Attended academy kept by Rev. Stephen Peabody at Atkinson, NH, and Harvard. In 1819 was ordained minister in Charleston, SC. Married Caroline Howard in 1819. He became a leading literary figure in Charlestown toward his death in 1858.
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Purchase
- People:
- Gilman, Samuel (1790-1858), Gilman, Caroline Howard (1794-1888), Nutter, William H. (1874-1941)
- Subjects:
- Portrait miniatures, Ministers, Clergymen, Literature, Religion
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