Painting
- Title:
- Daniel Webster
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 1901.007.01
- Creator:
- Ames, Joseph (1816-1872)
Artist - Date:
- 1852
- Description:
- Portrait of Daniel Webster (1782-1852) by Joseph Ames (1816-1872), 1852. Oil on canvas. Three-quarter-length portrait of a man facing right, seated. Sitter has receding black hair, heavy black eyebrows, and brown eyes. Wearing a brown coat with black velvet collar, yellow waistcoat, white shirt with turnover collar, and tied white cravat. Sitters right arm rests on chair arm; left hand tucked into waistcoat. Seated in an Elizabethan Revival chair with red upholstery and turnings. Gray-green background. Signed, right of center, in red paint: "J. Ames / 1852." Brass nameplate on frame: "Daniel Webster. / Joseph Ames." GIlded gesso over molded wood frame with laurel exterior, striped cove, acanthus c-scrolls and twisted rope interior; "I STILL LIVE" applied to upper frame member.
- Material:
- Textile
Brass
Wood
Canvas - Dimensions:
- H-55.25 W-44.1 inches
- Provenance:
- Paintings of Daniel Webster (1901.007.01) and Peter Harvey (1901.007.02) were bequeathed to the New Hampshire Historical Society by Elizabeth F. Harvey (1813-1891), widow of Peter Harvey, friend and biographer of Daniel Webster.
This was the last portrait of Webster painted from life. "I STILL LIVE" is believed to have been Webster's last words before he died at Marshfield, MA, October 24, 1852. - Credit Line:
- Bequest of Elizabeth F. Harvey
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