Painting

Title:

Charlotte Dustin Clough

Object Name:

Painting

Creator:

Bundy, Horace

Date:

circa1840

Material:

Canvas
Wood

Dimensions:

H-1.3 W-4.75 D-0.25 inches

Description:

Framed Painting. Oil on canvas. Painting of Charlotte Clough. Charlotte is wearing a black dress with white frills at the neck. She is sitting on a red chair holding a book; in the background is a vase of flowers as well as a curtain. The paint is rough but even. The frame is gold painted wood. The frame profile rises outward.

Provenance:

One of a pair of Clough Family portraits (Willard and Charlotte), attributed to Horace Bundy; the portraits were found a Clough family home in Contoocook (2398 Hopkinton Rd.).
Willard Clough (1811-1866) was the son of Phineas Clough (1785-1866) and Judith Currier (1788-1868). Although not much is known about Willard�s life, it is reported that he was a �farmer, [and] always resided in Hopkinton.� Willard and his wife Charlotte lived in a home on Putney Hill that was built by his grandparents, James and Ruth Clough. Built in the late 1700s, the home is located on Route 103 on the old road from Claremont to Concord, which would have been a familiar route for itinerant artist Horace Bundy. The home remained in the Clough family until 1905.
Charlotte Dustin (1816-1885) married Willard Clough in 1836 and the couple had three children: Moses Tenney (1838-1917), Maria (1842-date unknown), and Willard Eugene (1850-1934).

Subjects:

Portrait paintings, Artists, Paintings

People:

Bundy, Horace, Clough, Willard, Clough, Charlotte Dustin

Item Number:

2010.0006.02

Accession Number:

2010.0006

Type of Material:

Objects

Copyright Statement:

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Credit Line:

Hopkinton Historical Society Purchase

Participating Organization:

Hopkinton Historical Society