Painting
- Title:
- Walter Ingalls
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 2006.052.01
- Creator:
- Ingalls, Walter (1805-1874)
Artist - Date:
- circa 1855
- Description:
- Self-portrait of Walter Ingalls (1805-1874), c. 1855. Oil on canvas. Bust-length oval portrait of a man, facing slightly right. Sitter has brown hair, brown eyes, and furrowed brow. He is wearing a black coat, white waistcoat, white undershirt, and yellow cravat tied in a bow. Graduated gray background. Unsigned. Gilded gesso over oval wood frame, bands of foilate trim around interior and exterior.
- Material:
- Textile
Canvas - Dimensions:
- H-23 W-17.8 inches
- Provenance:
- One of four paintings owned by artist's son, Captain Napoleon Bonaparte Ingalls (1830-1922) of Portland, OR. The paintings descended to artist's great-grandson, George Leighton Jones of Burlingame, CA, who, upon his death in 1980, bequeathed them to donors.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Robert and Grace Bove
- Subjects:
- Artists, Self-portraits, Portraits, Portrait paintings
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