Painting
- Title:
- Napoleon B. Ingalls
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 2006.052.02
- Creator:
- Ingalls, Walter (1805-1874)
Artist - Date:
- circa 1855
- Description:
- Portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte Ingalls (1830-1922), by Walter Ingalls (1805-1874), c. 1855. Oil on canvas. Bust-length oval portrait of a young man, facing slightly left; looking at viewer. Sitter has brown hair and mutton-chop sideburns. He is wearing a black coat, white waistcoat, white shirt, and black stock with bow. Unsigned. Gilded gesso over oval wood frame, foliate designs with large central flower and rope molding on exterior edge.
- Material:
- Textile
Canvas - Dimensions:
- H-27.25 W-22 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:
- Captains, Ship, Portrait paintings, Portraits
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