Painting
- Title:
- Abigail Kendrick Brooks
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 1955.227.02
- Creator:
- Belknap, Zedekiah (1781-1858)
Artist - Date:
- 1825/5
- Description:
- Portrait of Abigail Kendrick Brooks (1764-1826), by Zedekiah Belknap (1781-1858), May 1825. Oil on panel. Half-length view of seated woman facing slightly right with eyes turned toward front. Sitter has dark brown curls visible on forehead; light brown eyes.Wearing a high-waisted red-brown dress with wide neckline filled with a sheer white chemisette decorated with floral and geometric patterns. Also wearing a similarly decorated sheer white fichu, one end of which is drawn under belt of dress, and a sheer white cap decorated with a floral striped ribbon, in blue-gray and red-brown, tied under chin. Wrapped in a brown shawl. Seated in a painted chair, apparently of "thumb-back" Windsor type, a stile and part of the crest rail of which are visible at left. Dark gray-green background with dark brown area at lower right. 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 / Abigail Kendrick Brooks. / wife of Isaac Brooks. / born in Amherst (Monson) N.H. / Aug. 8th, 1764 / Drawn by Z.Belknap. / Weathersfield Vt. / May 1825." This inscription is superimposed over an earlier pencil inscription reading: "Abigail K. Brooks / Amherst / New Hampshire." Additional pencil inscription reading: "Lamson Merrimack Rd." Subject's name repeated in pencil. Molded wood frame, painted black, gilded interior.
- Material:
- Wood
- Dimensions:
- H-27 W-22.25 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:
- Brooks, Abigail Kendrick, Portrait paintings, Portraits
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