Samuel Fessenden (1780-1869), Class of 1806
Hannah Brown Skeele, American, 1829 - 1901
1890
Oil on canvas
Overall: 35 1/16 × 27 15/16 in. (89 × 71 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Dr. Charles S.D. Fessenden
P.890.5
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Painting
Research Area
Painting
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, not in artist's hand?, on reverse: S. Fessenden / by Miss H. B. Skeele
Exhibition History
Hannah B. Skeele, Portraits and Still Lifes, Brick Store Museum, Kennebunk, Maine, April 6-July 24, 1982.
Publication History
Catalogue of Portraits, and other works of Art at Dartmouth College, Hanover: Dartmouth College, 1932, p. 18, no. 56.
George Hill Evans, Catalogue of Portraits and other works of art in the gallery of Dartmouth College, Hanover: Dartmouth College, 1901, p. 24, no. 62.
Provenance
The sitter's son, Dr. Charles S.D. Fessenden (1828-1898), Louisville, Kentucky given to present collection, 1890.
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