Painting

Title:

Portrait of Lucretia Morse Fiske

Object Name:

Painting

Creator:

Attributed to Walter J. Ingalls

Date:

circa1830

Material:

Oil on canvas, wood frame

Dimensions:

H-4.75 L-21 Dia-7 inches
Sight dimensions:
Height: 34 in.
Width: 36 in.

Description:

Full length portrait of young child, seated on red cushion or stool, wearing white Empire-style dress with short puffed sleeves. Child has short brown hair and brown eyes, wears red shoes and holds a red book. Plain back background. In gilded wooden frame. Written in pencil on back of top section of frame is "Lucretia Morse Fiske Concord, NH 1830". There are numbers at each corner in marker and a name 'Dudley", possibly the framer.

Provenance:

Portrait was most likely made somewhere in New England. Provenance after that is unclear.

Lucretia was born on November 26, 1826 to Mr. Francis Nourse Fiske and Mary Emery Fiske. Her father held several government positions around New Hampshire while her mother Mary was the daughter of Judge Timothy Walker of Concord. Here she is depicted when she was a child in an empire-styled dress with puffed sleeves. Not much is known of her until she marries William G. Perry on August 20th,1849 and lived with him in Exeter, New Hampshire

Subjects:

Paintings, Portraits, Children, Oil, Oil on Canvas

People:

Fiske, Lucretia Morse, Ingalls, Walter J.

Place of Origin:

New England

Collection Name:

Society of the Cincinnati in the State of New Hampshire

Item Number:

2010.001

Accession Number:

2010.001

Type of Material:

Objects

Copyright Statement:

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Credit Line:

American Independence Museum

Participating Organization:

American Independence Museum