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Bust-length oil portrait of Benjamin Willis. He is seated in a red chair with his right arm folded. He is wearing a dark blue suit and ivory ruffled collar and shirt, and has blue-gray eyes and graying hair. The wood frame is gilt with raised outer edge and a concave surface.
oil paintings (visual works)
portraits
oil paint (paint)
canvas
wood (plant material)
gesso
Picture
Portrait
Portrait
"Benjamin Willis 1768-1858" (Title on bottom of frame)
Willis, Benjamin, 1768-1853
Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
P188
FA112
After Cole, Joseph Greenleaf, 1803-1858 (Artist)
36 10/16 x 28 12/16 x 1 13/16 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.611
Title Mary McKinstry Willis Accession Number 2006.44.612
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