# Hannah Wentworth Atkinson

- By: Joseph Blackburn (British, c. 1730–1787)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/1919.1005)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/cma/1919.1005/1919.1005_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.