Benjamin Franklin Thomas (1813-78), c. 1900

| Joseph R. DeCamp (1858-1923)
| after a photograph
| oil on canvas
| 30 x 24 7/8 (76.20 x 63.18)
| signed, u.l.: ‘J. DECAMP, After Photo.’
| Gift of Francis Peabody Abbot, Agnes Ann Abbot, Mary Perkins Abbot, and Charles B. Abbot, 1944
| Weis 113

Ex. Coll.: Commissioned by Richard Olney (1835-1917) under the direction of his daughters Agnes Minot (b. 1861) and Mary Olney (b. 1864); 1 to his grandchildren, the donors.

1. The portrait was deposited as a loan to AAS by Agnes Minot ‘from the Estate of Richard Olney’ in 1940. (See Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 50 [October 1940]: 203.)

 

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