Portrait of a Connecticut Clockmaker
ca. 1800
- Medium
- oil on wood
- Dimensions
- 26.1 × 20.1 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-135918
Ralph Earl was born into a prominent family of craftsmen, and his portraits are painted with sharp attention to detail. In this painting the subject sits in a Sheraton “fancy” armchair, a type that was especially popular in the Connecticut Valley, where Earl worked. The wooden clock on the tea table might be a kind of clock that was developed in that region for mass production. The clock and book…
Provenance
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Orrin Wickersham June
Registry history
- ca. 1800 — Recorded in the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum
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