Drawing

Title:

Joseph Leighton Demeritt and Joseph Demeritt Bean

Object Name:

Drawing

Object ID:

2022.009.05

Date:

circa 1910

Description:

Portrait of Joseph Leighton Demeritt (1831-1915) and Joseph Demeritt Bean (1904-1990), c. 1910. Crayon drawing (enhanced photographic enlargement) of an older man with white hair, mustache, and beard wearing a dark suit, white shirt, and black bow tie. Man is seated on a woven rattan chaise lounge style chair with a small child in a long sleeved white dress and black leather boots on his left knee. Gilt wood frame with decorative foliate scroll mounts in each corner, glazed.

Material:

Paper

Dimensions:

H-25.5 W-21.5 D-1 inches

Provenance:

Mark Demeritt (1792-1875) of Farmington, NH, and Abigail E. Leighton (1799-1881) of New Durham, NH, were married on July 21, 1816. They farmed land in Farmington and raised nine children born between 1818 and 1840. Dorothy A. Bean (1937-2021), who lived at the Demeritt Homestead and preserved family collections, was the daughter of Joseph Demeritt Bean (1904-1990) and Donna Otey. Joseph D. Bean had inherited the 340-acre farm from his parents, Ivory U. Bean (1868-1960) and Ida M. Wyatt (1871-1941), who had inherited the property from Joseph L. Demeritt (1831-1915), a son of Mark and Abigail (Leighton) Demeritt.

Credit Line:

Bequest of the Dorothy A. Bean Revocable Trust

People:

Demeritt, Joseph L. (1831-1915), Bean, Joseph D. (1904-1990)

Subjects:

Demeritt, Joseph L., Bean, Joseph D., Crayon photographic prints