Painting

Title:

Sarah Melendy

Object Name:

Painting

Object ID:

1999.004.02

Creator:

Badger, Thomas (1792-1868)Artist

Date:

1861

Description:

Portrait of Sarah Melendy (1792-1883), by Thomas Badger (1792-1868), 1861. Oil on canvas. Half-length portrait of a woman, facing slightly left. Sitter has brown hair, parted in the center and pulled back, fair skin, red cheeks, and gray-blue eyes. She is shown wearing a black button-front dress with white lace collar, a gold and red brooch, and a black hair piece. Behind sitter is a red curtain at right, and a gray-green wall at left. Inscribed on back of stretcher, black ink, "Sarah [M]elendy", and on back of canvas just below name and in the same handwriting, "Painted by T. Badger Jany [superscript 'y'] 1861." A piece of tape is applied to the canvas top over the stretcher, marked "CARY 1F-1".A typed label is applied to frame back, "Sarah Melendy". Gilded gesso over molded wood frame; circular disk design in interior.

Material:

Textile
Canvas

Dimensions:

H-27 W-22.25 inches

Provenance:

Portraits were housed at the Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, N.H. -- where there are paintings of T. Badger and Rebecca Melendy -- then delivered to NHHS in March, 1999.
The four Melendy sisters portraits as well as the T. Badger portrait hung in the David (later Bean) House in Amherst, N.H. The house was later owned by Margaret B. Carey, mother of Ellison and C. David Carey III.
Hepsibah Melendy (1791-1877/87) -- Amherst, N.H. Unmarried.
Sarah Melendy (1792-1883) -- Amherst, N.H.
Abigail Melendy (1784-1830) -- Amherst, N.H. Twin brother, Daniel (1784-1814). Unmarried.
Thomas H. Badger (1792-1868) -- Painter. Married to Rebecca Melendy (1795-1852)

Credit Line:

Gift of Ellison M. Carey and C. David Carey III

People:

Melendy, Sarah (1792-1883), Badger, Thomas (1792-1868)

Subjects:

Sisters, Women, Portrait paintings, Portraits