Painting
- Title:
- Benjamin S. Clark
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 1970.500.03
- Creator:
- Unknown
- Date:
- circa 1840
- Description:
- Miniature portrait of Benjamin S. Clark (1815-1855), unknown artist, c. 1840. Watercolor on ivory. Bust-length oval portrait of a man facing slightly left; eyes toward viewer. Sitter has light brown hair, parted on right, and gray eyes. He is wearing a black coat, black waistcoat, white shirt and black tied cravat. Bluish gray hatched background. Oval brass case with bezel, embossed foliate scroll design on reverse with small glass window, glazed.
- Material:
- Skeletal
Ivory
Metal
Glass - Dimensions:
- H-2.225 W-1.75 inches
- Provenance:
- Benjamin S. Clark was born in Wakefield, NH, 1815. He died in Lawrence, MA, 1855.
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Collection
- People:
- Clark, Benjamin S. (1815-1855)
- Subjects:
- Miniatures (Paintings), Miniatures (Paintings)
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