Painting
- Title:
- Henry Caner
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 1927.002
- Creator:
- Unknown
- Date:
- circa 1760
- Description:
- Miniature portrait of Henry Caner (1700-1792), unknown artist, c. 1760. Watercolor on ivory. Bust-length oval portrait of a man, facing slightly right. Sitter has a long curly gray wig and blue eyes. He is wearing a black coat, buttoned-up black waistcoat, and white cravat. Gray background. Unsigned. Frame stamped in right and left corners reverse: "V" and "20". Square black wood frame with oval window and interior gilding, glazed.
- Material:
- Skeletal
Ivory - Dimensions:
- H-1.5 W-1.25 inches
- Provenance:
- Rev. Henry Caner (1700-1792) was rector of King's Chapel 1747-1776. He preached the sermon at the funeral of Rev. Timothy Cutler, Rector of Christ Church, August 17, 1746. He was also a Royalist who shut up the house of the Episcopal Society during the Revolution in '76 and fled.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Frank W. Bayley
- People:
- Caner, Henry (1700-1792)
- Subjects:
- Clergy, Clerics, Religion, Portrait miniatures, Loyalists, Caner, Henry
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