Object Record
Images
Metadata
Title |
Smith Brothers |
Object Name |
Painting |
Catalog Number |
1985.484.1 |
Description |
Oversize oil painting of the Smith Brothers - Oil on loosely woven canvas tacked onto wooden stretcher and framed in ornate gilded plaster frame with ribbon, oak leaf, acorn pattern. Subjects: John Smith (left) and Peter Smith seated; 3/4 view to knee level. John's chair is shown; Peter holds a cane. Label on stretcher: " Mass. Charitable Mechanic Assoc./ Fine Art Dept. / Sixteenth Exhibition/ Title: John and Peter Smith of Andover/ Artist: Edgar Parker/ owner:(none)/ Return to: No. 3 Winter St., Boston/ Price: (none)" |
Provenance |
Printed References: See transcripts "Historical Facts" and "Address Upon the Tariff Question" in Smith family file. Author unknown. Donated along with painting. Wallace and Groce, Dictionary of Artists in America, p. 487 , Edgar Parker. Photograph, 1913 c. , George Smith, President of Smith and Dove Manufacturing Co. in his office. Painting # 1985.484 of John and Peter Smith hangs on the wall in Smith and Dove office. George Smith ( d.1942) was donor's father and Mary Byers Smith's brother. Artist: Edgar Parker, b. 1840, d. after 1875. A native of Framingham ,Ma. Spent most of his career as a portrait painter in Boston. Source of his subjects were Nathaniel Hawthorne, John Greenleaf Whittier and Theodore Sedgwick. He is represented at Faneuil Hall and the U.S Capitol. (N.Y. Historical Society Dictionary of Artists in America. 1564-1860 Yale Univ. Press. ) |
Date |
1860 c. |
People |
Smith, John Smith, Peter |