Painting
- Title:
- Franklin Pierce
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 2024.039
- Date:
- circa 1852
- Description:
- Painting. Oil on copper portrait of Franklin Pierce, c. 1852. Bust-length portrait of a middle-aged man, long curly dark hair parted and combed over the top and toward front to create a pile on top of his head, hair on other side combed backwards, clean-shaven, dark coat with white shirt with turned-up collar, dark bowtie or cravat, medium gray background above his shoulders and head.Gilded wooden frame.
- Material:
- Copper
Paint - Dimensions:
- H-7.5 W-5.5 inches
- Provenance:
- Rexford Allison Stark (1947-2023) Collection
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Purchase, Katharine Prentis Murphy Fund
- People:
- Pierce, Franklin (1804-1869)
- Subjects:
- Pierce, Franklin, Presidents, Lawyers, Senators (U.S.), Military officers
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