Detail View: The AMICA Library: Mrs. Theodore Atkinson
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AMICA ID:
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CMA_.1919.1005
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AMICA Library Year:
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2002
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Object Type:
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Paintings
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Creator Name:
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Blackburn, Joseph
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Creator Nationality:
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North American; American
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Creator Role:
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artist
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Creator Dates/Places:
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1824 - 1911 - 1523
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Gender:
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M
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Creator Birth Place:
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probably England
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Creator Name-CRT:
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Joseph Blackburn
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Title:
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Mrs. Theodore Atkinson
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Title Type:
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Primary
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View:
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Full View
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Creation Date:
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1760
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Creation Start Date:
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1760
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Creation End Date:
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1760
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Materials and Techniques:
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oil on canvas
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Classification Term:
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Painting
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Dimensions:
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Unframed: 124.7cm x 99.3cm
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AMICA Contributor:
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The Cleveland Museum of Art
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Owner Location:
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Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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ID Number:
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1919.1005
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Credit Line:
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Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust
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Inscriptions:
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signed left: I Blackburn Pinxit 1760
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Rights:
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Provenance:
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family of the sitter (1919). (Frank Bayley, Boston).
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Context:
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Posed bolt upright in a billowing satin gown, Mrs. Atkinson (born Hannah Wentworth, 1700?1769) is almost a mannequin for the display of opulent textiles. As the sister of the first royal governor of New Hampshire and the wife of that colony's chief justice and richest man, she was as close to an aristocrat as any person both in British America. Mrs. Atkinson and her husband found a suitable portrait painter in Joseph Blackburn who was probably born and trained in England, and was thus familiar with fashionable tastes. Mr. Atkinson's portrait is now in the Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts. |
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Related Image Identifier Link:
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CMA_.AM20020199.tif
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