Painting
- Title:
- Weare Tappan
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 1993.003.01
- Creator:
- Wood, Thomas Waterman (1823-1903)
Artist - Date:
- 1856
- Description:
- Portrait of Weare Tappan (1790-1868), by Thomas Waterman Wood (1823-1903), 1856. Oil on paper. Oval half-length portrait of a man. Sitter is wearing a black coat, black and white waistcoats, frill shirt, and black cravat. He has white unkempt hair and oval metal-framed eyeglasses. Sits in a red upholstered chair. Inscribed in red at bottom: "T. W. WOOD. Jan. '56. / Mary Jeannie, From Minnie." Gilded oval fame with exterior beaded and raised interior edge, gold-colored oval mat.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-8.9 W-7 inches
- Provenance:
- The donor's husband, Mason Tappan Goodenough (1910-1992), was the grandson of Mason Weare Tappan (1817-1886). Mason Weare Tappan was the son of the sitter, Weare Tappan.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Viola R. Goodenough
- People:
- Tappan, Weare (1790-1868), Wood, Thomas Waterman (1823-1903), Goodenough, Mason Tappan (1910-1992), Goodenough, Viola R. (1912-2001)
- Subjects:
- Tappan, Weare, Lawyers, Portrait paintings, Portraits
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