Painting
- Title:
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 1961.048.02
- Creator:
- Healy, G. P. A. (1813-1894)
Artist - Date:
- 1852
- Description:
- Portrait of Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864), by G.P.A. Healy (1813-1894), 1852. Oil on canvas. Half-length portrait of a man, facing slightly right; eyes toward viewer. Sitter has medium-length black hair, black eyebrows, and gray eyes. He is wearing a black coat and waistcoat, white shirt with high collar, and black cravat tied in a bow. Green background. Signed and dated, lower right: "G.P.A. Healy / 1852." Gilded gesso over wood frame with exterior and interior twisted rope molding, convex cove with leaves, rounded corners on window.
- Material:
- Textile
Canvas - Dimensions:
- H-29.5 W-24.5 inches
- Provenance:
- Franklin Pierce commissioned this portrait of his lifelong friend, Nathaniel Hawthorne, whom he had met while attending Bowdoin College. During Pierce's administration, the portrait hung in the White House.
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Purchase
- People:
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864), Healy, George P. A. (1813-1894), Pierce, Franklin (1804-1869)
- Subjects:
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel, Authors, Portrait paintings, Portraits
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