Painting

Title:

The Pillsbury Homestead

Object Name:

Painting

Object ID:

2014.028

Creator:

Andrews, Harriet N. (1847-1937)

Date:

1884

Description:

Painting, "The Pillsbury Homestead," Warner, NH, by Harriet N. Andrews (1847-1937), 1884. Oil on canvas. Depicts the home of George A. Pillsbury (1816-1898), on hillside with Mount Kearsarge in background. Framed.

Material:

Textile

Dimensions:

H-13 W-20 inches

Provenance:

After working in Boston, George A. Pillsbury (1816-1898) of Sutton, NH, moved to Warner in 1840, clerking in the general store of John H. Pearson. In July 1841 Pillsbury purchased the business and operated it until 1848 when he moved to Boston and entered the wholesale dry goods business. In 1849 he returned to Warner where he again opened a store, which he conducted until 1851, when he sold out and moved to Concord. George A. Pillsbury served as postmaster in Warner from 1844 to 1849, as selectman in 1847 and 1849, and as representative on the state legislature in 1850 and 1851. After a residence of more than 20 years in Concord, George A. Pillsbury moved to Minneapolis, MN, where he became a member of his son's flour milling business, C. A. Pillsbury Co. George A. Pillsbury later built and endowed the Pillsbury Free Library of Warner and the Pillsbury Hospital of Concord.
The painting was probably commissioned by Charles Alfred Pillsbury (1842-1899), the eldest son of George A. and Margaret (Carleton) Pillsbury. He was born and educated in Warner, and graduated from Dartmouth College in 1863. After working as a clerk and partner in a Montreal, Canada, mercantile firm, Pillsbury moved to Minneapolis in 1869 and established a flour milling business. In 1872 Pillsbury persuaded his father and a brother to join him and founded the world famous flour business, C. A. Pillsbury Co.
David Pillsbury Becker (1947-2010), the donor of the painting through a bequest to Bowdoin College Museum of Art, was the great-great grandson of George A. Pillsbury.

Artist Harriet Newell Andrews, the daughter of John and Susan (Adams) Andrews was born in Bradford, NH, on May 8, 1847. She attended local schools as well as Miss Gregg's Academy in Chicago, and Mount Holyoke College. From 1886 to 1888 and again in 1892, Andrews traveled in Europe and studied at the Academie Julian in Paris. Returning to America she established a studio in Boston specializing in portraiture and lived in Melrose, MA.

Credit Line:

David P. Becker Bequest, Gift of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art

People:

Andrews, Harriet N. (1847-1937), Pillsbury, George A. (1816-1898), Pillsbury, Charles A. (1842-1899)

Subjects:

Mount Kearsarge, Farms, Farmhouses