{"object":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"9311"},"copyright":{"label":"Copyright","value":"The American Folk Art Museum believes this work to be in the public domain."},"thesconceptsTechnique":{"label":"Technique","value":["http://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster26674","http://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster12336"]},"creditline":{"label":"Credit Line","value":"Gift of Anne and David Genter"},"endDate":{"label":"End Date","value":"1835"},"sortNumber":{"label":"Sort Number","value":"2025     2    1"},"invno":{"label":"Accession number","value":"2025.2.1"},"description":{"label":"Description","value":""},"edition":{"label":"Photo Credit","value":"Adam Reich"},"medium":{"label":"Medium","value":"Oil on board"},"geographyPlaceregion":{"label":"Place/Region","value":"Hartford"},"media":{"label":"Media","value":{"mediaURL":"https://collection.folkartmuseum.org/internal/media/dispatcher/28211/full","mediaDepartment":"Object Photographs","mediaType":"Image","mediaId":"28211"}},"title":{"label":"Title","value":"Portrait of a Man"},"geographyCity":{"value":"Hartford"},"textEntriesWebsitedisplaytext":{"value":["Object information is a work in progress and may be updatedwith new research. Records are reviewed and revised, and the American Folk ArtMuseum welcomes additional information.　To help improve this record, please email photoservices@folkartmuseum.org","A little-known portraitist and ornamental painter active in Boston and Hartford, Benjamin B. Curtis completed upwards of 180 portraits in the Hartford area between 1833 and 1836. This beautiful pair is remarkable for their exquisitely rendered period detail. The gentleman, depicted sketching an architectural design, sits before a completed landscape on an easel. These details suggest the man\u2019s profession may have been an architectural one.","3/4 angle, bust length portrait of a man with brown hair in a black suit. Seated presumably at a desk sketching an architectural design. In the background is a red curtain with a large gold tassel and a landscape painting on an easel. "]},"collections":{"label":"Collections","value":["Paintings","Recent Acquisitions"]},"geography":{"label":"Geography","value":"Hartford"},"id":{"label":"Id","value":"157965"},"geographyState":{"value":"Connecticut"},"thesconceptsMaterials":{"label":"Materials","value":["http://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster26674","http://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster12336"]},"signed":{"label":"Signed","value":"verso lower left: 'Painted by B.B. Curtis Feb 1835'"},"geographyCountry":{"value":"United States"},"onview":{"label":"On View","value":"0"},"people":{"label":"Artist / Maker","value":{"displayOrder":"1","personRole":"Artist","personID":"3448","content":"Benjamin B. Curtis"}},"classifications":{"label":"Classification(s)","value":"Paintings"},"textEntries":{"label":"Text Entries","value":["Object information is a work in progress and may be updatedwith new research. Records are reviewed and revised, and the American Folk ArtMuseum welcomes additional information.　To help improve this record, please email photoservices@folkartmuseum.org","A little-known portraitist and ornamental painter active in Boston and Hartford, Benjamin B. Curtis completed upwards of 180 portraits in the Hartford area between 1833 and 1836. This beautiful pair is remarkable for their exquisitely rendered period detail. The gentleman, depicted sketching an architectural design, sits before a completed landscape on an easel. These details suggest the man\u2019s profession may have been an architectural one.","3/4 angle, bust length portrait of a man with brown hair in a black suit. Seated presumably at a desk sketching an architectural design. In the background is a red curtain with a large gold tassel and a landscape painting on an easel. "]},"beginDate":{"label":"Begin Date","value":"1835"},"inscribed":{"label":"Inscribed","value":""},"thesconcepts":{"label":"Terms","value":["http://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster26674","http://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster12336"]},"displayDate":{"label":"Date","value":"1835"},"thesconceptsObjecttype":{"label":"Object Type","value":["http://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster26674","http://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster12336"]},"dimensions":{"label":"Dimensions","value":"Image: 27 x 22 3/4 \" (68.6 x 57.8 cm)Frame: 32 1/2 x 27 7/8 x 2 3/4 \" (82.6 x 70.8 x 7 cm)"}}]}