Paintings
J.B. Aged 1 Year 1784 (Portrait of a Young Boy with a Dog)
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- Date
- 1784
- Accession number
- 2022.25.16
- Maker
- The Gloucester Limner(Opens in new tab) (American)
- Dimensions
- canvas: 25 × 18 in. (63.5 × 45.7 cm.) frame: 27 5/8 × 20 × 1 in. (70.2 × 50.8 × 2.5 cm.)
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Description
- portrait of a young boy with dog; depicted within an oblong oval spandrel, against dark ground; with drop shadow lettering with initials at top - J. B. ; and along bottom - Ag.d. 1 Year / 1784.; Gloucester Limner; the artist is designated as Gloucester Limner, possibly the work of Rufus Hathaway (1770 - 1822).
- Credit
- The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Gift of Jonathan and Karin Fielding
