Painting
- Title:
- Dr. Ezra Bartlett
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 2010.008
- Creator:
- Slafter, Alonzo (1801-1864)
- Place of Origin:
- Haverhill, NH
- Date:
- 1840
- Description:
- Portrait of Ezra Bartlett (1770-1848), by Alonzo Slafter (1801-1864), 1840. Oil on canvas. Elderly, balding man seated in red upholstered armchair, facing left; wearing white shirt, white collar, black vest, and brown coat; gold ornament on shirt; hands folded in lap; gold ring on left hand; red drapery on left. Portrait of a woman is visible on reverse, painted over. Unsigned. Modern gilded wood frame, possibly ormolu.
- Material:
- Textile
Canvas - Dimensions:
- H-30 W-26 inches
- Provenance:
- Portrait painted by Alonzo Slafter in Haverhill, NH, 1840. Accompanied by copy of receipt for $35 in payment for the portrait, signed "A. Slafter, Haverhill Nov. 26, 1840." Ezra Bartlett was the tenth child of Josiah Bartlett, signer of the Declaration of Independence.
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Purchase, Katharine Prentis Murphy Fund
- Subjects:
- Medicine, Doctors, Physicians
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