Object Record
Images
Metadata
Catalog Number |
C08.545 |
Title |
Theodore Sheafe Cushing |
Object Name |
Painting |
Description |
Three-quarter length portrait of young man with dark hair and "mutton-chop" sideburns standing with left hand on hip; right hand is inside black coat; in gold frame with applied floral ornament. A mark on the canvas dates it to Boston 1848-49. |
Date |
c.1848 |
Year Range from |
1840 |
Year Range to |
1850 |
Artist |
Chester Harding |
Dimensions |
H-35.5 W-28.5 inches |
Material |
Oil on canvas |
Place of Origin |
Boston? |
Provenance |
This painting hung in the Wentworth-Coolidge House during the Cushing ownership; descended in the Cushing/Rose family until it was presented to the Athenaeum. This is a pair to C08.544. Attribution to Chester Harding based on portrait of Samuel Cushman which has Harding on the frame. Harding was in Portsmouth 1849. |
People |
Cushing, Theodore Sheafe, 1817-1850 |
Search Terms |
Wentworth-Coolidge Mansion |
Subjects |
Portrait Painting |