Painting
- Title:
- Isaac Brooks
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 1955.227.01
- Creator:
- Belknap, Zedekiah (1781-1858)
Artist - Date:
- 1825/5
- Description:
- Portrait of Isaac Brooks (1757-1840) by Zedekiah Belknap (1781-1858), May 1825. Oil on panel. Bust-length view of seated man facing left with head turned toward front. Sitter has short gray hair with side whiskers; brown eyes. Wearing a black coat, gray and black striped waistcoat, and white cravat with bow, shirt frill and standing collar. Seated in a painted chair, apparently of "thumb-back" Windsor type, a stile and part of the crest rail of which are visible at right. Dark gray fluted column partly visible in background at right. Remainder of background, deep red. Chair, orange-brown, with dark brown ( or black) decoration composed of undulating and interlaced vines. Reverse of panel painted gray with large-scale inscription painted in black reading: "Portrait of / Isaac Brooks / born in Woburn, Mass. / August 16th, 1757. / Drawn by Z. Belknap / Weathersfield Vt. / May 1825". This inscription is partially superimposed over an earlier inscription reading: "Isaac Brooks / Amherst /NH." (Name of subject repeated twice in pencil.) Molded wood frame, painted black with interior and exterior gilding.
- Material:
- Wood
- Dimensions:
- H-27 W-22.4 inches
- Provenance:
- Portraits may have been given by Isaac Brooks Dodge, grandson of Isaac Brooks (1757-1841), and son of Abigail Brooks Dodge (1806-1872). He was a member of the NHHS. He died at Amherst, Aug. 24, 1905. There is no mention of portraits in the inventory of his estate.
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Collection
- Subjects:
- Teachers, Teaching, Portrait paintings, Portraits, Education
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