Painting

Title:

Roys Jones

Object Name:

Painting

Object ID:

2014.024.01

Creator:

Bundy, Horace (1814-1883)

Place of Origin:

Claremont, NH

Date:

1846

Description:

Portrait of Roys Jones (1784-1857) of Claremont, NH, by Horace Bundy (1814-1883), 1846. Oil on canvas. Inscribed on reverse of canvas in black paint: "R. J[o]nes AE 62 / H. Bundy Painter / Claremont / Sept 1846". Pine strainer. In original frame.

Material:

Textile

Dimensions:

H-28.1 W-23.8 inches

Provenance:

Artist Horace Bundy painted the portrait of Roys Jones while traveling through Claremont, NH, in September 1846. Bundy painted the portrait of Roys Jones' second wife Betsey Church (1793-1873) in May 1848. They had married at Rockingham, VT, on June 9, 1847. Roys Jones was a prosperous farmer, member of the Episcopal Church, and officer in the state militia, who held a number of minor town offices during the mid-19th century.

Horace Bundy, the son of Lemuel and Esther (Shipman) Bundy, was born in 1814 at Hardwick, VT. Bundy began his career as a carriage maker in Lowell, MA. The following year he completed his first documented portraits of Nashua, NH, residents. Through 1859 Bundy completed more than 100 portraits in New Hampshire and Vermont. He pioneered the use of photographs as visual references in painting portraits. The Society owns a rare 1851 broadside by Bundy advertising portrait painting in Nashua. In 1842 he joined the Adventist church, becoming a Millerite, working in northern New England as a minister as well as an artist. In 1863 Bundy accepted an appointment as the pastor of the Second Adventist Church in Lakeport, NH. After the death of his wife, Bundy moved to Concord, where he lived with his daughter's family, continuing to paint portraits and landscapes until his death in 1883.

Credit Line:

Gift of the family of Lucius G. Eldredge III

People:

Bundy, Horace (1814-1883), Jones, Roys (1784-1857)

Subjects:

Jones, Roys