William Bentley (1759-1819), before 1826

| James Frothingham (1786-1864)
| copy after his own composition
| oil on canvas
| 27 1/4 x 22 1/4 (69.22 x 56.50)
| Bequest of Hannah Armstrong Kittredge, 1917
| Weis 10

Ex. Coll.: Possibly commissioned by Hannah Pippen Hodges (1768-1837); to her daughter Hannah Hodges Kittredge (1793-1877); to her daughter, the donor (1834-1916).

Exhibitions:
‘Dr. Bentley’s Salem: Diary of a Town,’ Essex Institute, Salem, Mass., 1977.

Publications:
‘Dr. Bentley’s Salem: Diary of a Town,’ Historical Collections of the Essex Institute 113 (July 1977): 34.
Stefanie Munsing Winkelbauer, ‘William Bentley: Connoisseur and Print Collector,’ in Georgia B. Barnhill, ed., Prints of New England (Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1991), 22.

 

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