Caleb Fuller181615 3/4 x 11 " (40 x 27.9 cm)
Frame: 18 1/8 x 13 x 1 1/8 " (46 x 33 x 2.9 cm)Reverse painting in oil on glassGift of Sybil B. and Arthur B. Kern1983.11.20Bust length portrait of male with long sideburns and dark hair combed forward over forehead. Gentleman is depicted, posed to left, in dark coat in cream colored vest and white dress shirt. Collar of coat is raised high above shoulders.1531091307Benjamin GreenleafPaintingsThe American Folk Art Museum believes this work to be in the public domain.http://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster8824United StatesMainePaintingsPAINTING
Benjamin Greenleaf was born in Hull, Massachusetts. He started his career as an itinerant portrait painter as early as 1803, traveling through Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts. His subjects were interrelated by marriage or by community ties and included doctors, clergymen, and military personnel. Greenleaf usually worked with oil on board, but from 1810 to 1818 he also produced reverse paintings on glass.
Caleb Fuller was born in Oxford, Maine, on February 19, 1771. He was one of the early settlers of Paris, a town about forty miles from Wiscasset.
Both portraits demonstrate typical characteristics of Greenleaf profiles. Most notably, they are three-quarter bust-length portraits that fill most of the support and stand out from their dark backgrounds.
Lee Kogan, FOILED: Tinsel Painting in America (New York: American Folk Art Museum, 2013), 18.http://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster8824http://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster8824http://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster882418161816 1983 11 2 PAINTING
Benjamin Greenleaf was born in Hull, Massachusetts. He started his career as an itinerant portrait painter as early as 1803, traveling through Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts. His subjects were interrelated by marriage or by community ties and included doctors, clergymen, and military personnel. Greenleaf usually worked with oil on board, but from 1810 to 1818 he also produced reverse paintings on glass.
Caleb Fuller was born in Oxford, Maine, on February 19, 1771. He was one of the early settlers of Paris, a town about forty miles from Wiscasset.
Both portraits demonstrate typical characteristics of Greenleaf profiles. Most notably, they are three-quarter bust-length portraits that fill most of the support and stand out from their dark backgrounds.
Lee Kogan, FOILED: Tinsel Painting in America (New York: American Folk Art Museum, 2013), 18.