Painting
- Title:
- Mary Hamilton Hill Coolidge with her son J.R. Coolidge
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 1994.011
- Creator:
- Klumpke, Anna Elizabeth (1856-1942) -- Artist
- Place of Origin:
- Paris, France
- Date:
- 1891
- Description:
- Portrait of Mary Hamilton Hill Coolidge (1862-1952) and her son Joseph Randolph Coolidge (1887-1936), by Anna Elizabeth Klumpke (1856-1942), 1891. Oil on canvas. Full-length portrait of mother and child. Woman seated on stone bench. She is wearing a white gown with pink ribbons tied at her cuffs, neck, and waist; white frill collar. She has brown hair pulled up in an elaborate bun. She is holding a book in her hands tilting it toward a child on the right. The child, her son, has medium length blonde hair; wearing a white dress and black stockings. Flowers and foliage in background. Signed lower right: "A.E.Klumpke. / Paris 1891". Paper label tacked to frame back, "Subject, Portrait of Mrs. C./ Artist, Miss A.E. Klumpke / 132 Boylston St. Boston / co__es for the C&D Prize / RETURN TO / T.A. Wilmont & Son / 54 East 13th St. N.Y. / for Doll & Richards, / Boston." Gilded molded frame, with low-relief floral convex cove.
- Material:
- Textile
Canvas - Dimensions:
- H-57.5 W-45.75 inches
- Provenance:
- This portrait of Mary H. H. Coolidge was painted by Anna Klumpke to submit to an exhibit of works by young artists in Paris, where she was studying art. The painting was then purchased by Joseph R. Coolidge, Jr. The painting has remained with Joseph and Mary Coolidge and their direct descendants until its donation to NHHS.
Joseph R. Coolidge (b. 1916) -- New York, NY, and Sandwich, NH. Grandson of Mary H.H. Coolidge; son of J.R. Coolidge, III. Donated this painting to NHHS, which depicts his father and grandmother.
Joseph Randolph Coolidge, III (1887-1936) -- Brookline, MA. Eldest son of Mary and Joseph Randolph Coolidge, Jr. President of Montan Treating Co. of Boston, and specialist in wood preservation. Appears in this painting as a 3-4 year old child.
Mary Hamilton Hill Coolidge (1862 - 1952) -- Boston, MA, and Sandwich, NH. (b. Boston; m. Joseph Randolph Coolidge, Jr., 1886, together had 8 children; Boston residents, summered in Sandwich until 1924 when moved to Sandwich). Founder of Sandwich Home Industries (1926); first president of the League of New Hampshire Arts & Crafts (1931); received honorary degree from UNH (1932); awarded Charles Holmes Pettee medal for service to the state (1946). Portrait painted in Paris, which is where the Coolidges resided from 1891-94, while Mr. Coolidge studied at the Ecole de Beaux Arts.
Anna Elisabeth Klumpke (1856 - 1942) -- San Francisco, CA. Studied art in Paris with Rosa Bonheur. Established the Rosa Bonheur Memorial Art School and Museum, Fontainebleau, France. - Credit Line:
- Gift of the Coolidge Family
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