Paintings

Untitled (Portraits of Husband and Wife)

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Type: Paintings(Opens in new tab)
Date: ca. 1780
Accession number: 2022.25.9.1
Maker: Unknown, American, 18th Century(Opens in new tab) (American, 1700–1799)
Dimensions: panel: 25 × 17 3/4 in. (63.5 × 45.1 cm.) frame: 26 1/2 × 19 1/4 × 1 1/2 in. (67.3 × 48.9 × 3.8 cm.)
Medium: Oil on single pine panels
Description: Two portraits of husband and wife, each half-length and set against dark background; he wears a black turnover coat with large brass buttons, underneath the outer coat, he wears a green patterned waistcoat. She wears a blue dress with a white lace shawl; she wears an impressive bonnet with a wide blue ribbon
Credit: The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Gift of Jonathan and Karin Fielding
Department: American Art
Find out more: View in the Art Museum catalog(Opens in new tab)

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