Painting
- Title:
- Mary McGregor Means
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 2018.002.02
- Creator:
- Belknap, Zedekiah (1781-1858)
Artist - Place of Origin:
- Amherst, NH
- Date:
- circa 1815
- Description:
- Portrait of Mary McGregor Means (1752-1838) of Amherst, NH, attributed to Zedekiah Belknap (1781-1858), c. 1815. Oil on canvas. Bust-length, subject facing right. Older woman with dark hair; Subject wearing lace bonnet tied with gray ribbon, lace collar, lace shawl, gray neo-classical dress with white scarf in open front. Dark green background. In original thin profile water-gilded cove molding frame.
- Material:
- Textile
- Dimensions:
- H-30.4 W-25 inches
- Provenance:
- Purchased by donor at auction of the estate of descendant, Elinor Haven Means, Middlebury, VT, September 1977.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Anne Felton Spencer
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