Painting
- Title:
- Cotton, Leonard
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 2004.043.080
- Creator:
- Russell, Moses B. (1809-1884)
- Place of Origin:
- Portsmouth, NH
- Date:
- circa 1840
- Description:
- Miniature portrait of Leonard Cotton (1800-1872) of Portsmouth, NH, by Moses B. Russell (1809-1884), c. 1840. Watercolor on ivory. Vertical rectangle. Signed, lower left, "M. B. Russell Pinxt." Man with wavy dark hair, parted on left; black jacket and vest; white shirt and black tie; double gold watch chain; subject seated in brown, wooden chair. In hinged leather-bound case. Printed paper label inside case: "Made at / Smith's, / No. 2, Milk St., / opposite Old South, Boston." With handwritten note, "from Ann Withington".
- Material:
- Skeletal
Ivory - Dimensions:
- H-4.2 W-3.15 inches
- Provenance:
- From collection of Dr. Dorothy M. Vaughan (1904-2004), preservationist and collector of Portsmouth, N.H., artifacts.
Leonard Cotton (1800-1872) was a Portsmouth merchant. He married Martha Clarkson in 1821. - Credit Line:
- Bequest of Dr. Dorothy Mansfield Vaughan
- People:
- Cotton, Leonard (1800-1872), Smith's, Vaughan, Dorothy M. (1904-2004), Withington, Ann, Russell, Moses B.
- Subjects:
- Leonard Cotton, Miniatures (Paintings), Portrait miniatures, Merchants
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