Painting
- Title:
- Samuel Shackford
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 1991.030
- Creator:
- Eggleston, Benjamin (1867-1937)
- Date:
- 1898
- Description:
- Painting. Portrait of Samuel Shackford, Jr. (1752-1843), of Strafford, NH, by Benjamin Eggleston (1867-1937), 1898. Oil on canvas. Half-length portrait of an old man, facing slightly right. Sitter bald with white hair at sides; white sideburns and eyebrows; blue eyes. Sitter is wearing a black coat, white cravat, and white ruffle. He is seated in a chair with gilded crest rail and red upholstered back, lower left; dark brown background. Signed lower right in red paint: "BENJAMIN EGGLESTON, "98". Gilded gesso over molded wood frame.
- Material:
- Textile
Canvas - Dimensions:
- H-27 W-22 inches
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Margaret Mayo-Smith
- Subjects:
- Shackford, Samuel, Portrait paintings, Portraits
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