Portrait of a Man1835Image: 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)Oil on boardGift of Anne and David Genter2025.2.101579659311Benjamin B. CurtisPaintingsThe American Folk Art Museum believes this work to be in the public domain. verso lower left: 'Painted by B.B. Curtis Feb 1835'http://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster26674http://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster12336HartfordHartfordUnited StatesConnecticutPaintingsRecent AcquisitionsAdam ReichHartfordObject information is a work in progress and may be updated
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To help improve this record, please email photoservices@folkartmuseum.orgA 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’s 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. http://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster26674http://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster12336http://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster26674http://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster12336http://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster26674http://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster1233618351835 2025 2 1 Object information is a work in progress and may be updated
with new research. Records are reviewed and revised, and the American Folk Art
Museum welcomes additional information.
To help improve this record, please email photoservices@folkartmuseum.orgA 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’s 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.