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Hannah Wentworth Atkinson
Joseph Blackburn (British, c. 1730–1787)
1760
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- Unframed: 124.7 x 99.3 cm (49 1/8 x 39 1/8 in.)
- Culture
- United States
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, American Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
Posed bolt upright in a billowing satin gown, Hannah Wentworth Atkinson is almost a mannequin for the display of opulent textiles. The wife of the colony of New Hampshire's chief justice and richest man, she found a suitable portrait painter in Joseph Blackburn, who sought to present the fashionable tastes of his sitters.
