Painting
- Title:
- General Enoch Poor
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 1907.016.02
- Creator:
- Kosciusko, Thaddeus (1746-1817) -- Artist
- Place of Origin:
- Valley Forge, PA
- Date:
- 1777-1778
- Description:
- Miniature portrait of General Enoch Poor (1736-1780), by Thaddeus Kosciusko (1746-1817), 1777-1778. Watercolor on laid paper. Bust-length oval profile portrait of a man facing right. Sitter has hair tied in a queue. He is wearing a military uniform: bicorn hat, blue coat with buttons and epaulets, waistcoat, shirt with high collar, cravat, and sash across waistcoat. Unsigned. Engraved on case reverse: "Brig Genl Enoch Poor". In gold oval case with convex glazing.
- Material:
- Paper
Glass
Metal - Dimensions:
- H-2 W-1.5 inches
- Provenance:
- This portrait is said to have passed from Enoch Poor's wife, Martha Osgood, to their daughter, "who wore it as a breast pin till her death", and then to her son, Col. Bradbury Poor Cilley.
"Sketched one Sunday afternoon on the blank leaf of a copy of the New Testament, while at Church [at Valley Forge], and then colored and presented by the artist to Gen. Poor, his warm personal friend." - From "Portraits of New Hampshire Governors." - Credit Line:
- Loaned by Mary Shirley Griffin
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