Sarah Porter Paine (Mrs. Elijah Paine)
Chester Harding, American, 1792 - 1866
about 1842
Oil on canvas
Overall: 30 1/4 × 25 1/2 in. (76.9 × 64.7 cm)
Frame: 36 15/16 × 31 7/8 in. (93.9 × 80.9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur D. Hittner, Class of 1971
P.997.51
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Painting
Research Area
Painting
Not on view
Inscriptions
Not signed. Typed label on back of frame: Sarah Porter Paine / Born 5/22/1768. Died 5/31/1851 / Married Judge Elijah Paine on June 7, 1790
Publication History
Leah Lipton, A Truthful Likeness: Chester Harding and His Portraits, Washington, D.C.: The National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 1985, p. 172.
Provenance
Charles Paine (1830-1906); at his death to his son Francis Brinley Hebard Paine; to his widow, Mrs. F.B.H. Paine; given to her daughter, Margaret W. M. Paine about 1921; Mrs. Albert Gallatin Lainer of New York; Mr. and Mrs. Wurts, 33 Parkview Terrace, Huntington, Long Island in 1967; by the early 1970's owned by Margaret R. Rawson, Lincoln Street, Paris Hill, Maine, from whose estate it was acquired by R. Jorgensen Antiques of Wells, Maine; purchased in 1973 by Arthur D. and Margaret Hittner; given to present collection, 1997.
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