Three-quarter length, frontal, standing portrait of a man, Joseph Tucker, Jane Tucker's great uncle. The man has light brown hair and brown eyes and is wearing a black jacket, black bow tie, and green, purple and red vest. One arm is leaned up on a shelf of some sort and the other hand is poised on his hip. George Washington pin on front of shirt. Mounted in an elaborate 4 in. gilt frame.
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Painted in bottom left corner: ""Feulard 1845./ au Havre""
Original to Castle Tucker (Wiscasset, Me.),
Capt. Joseph Tucker
Feulard (Maker)
Le Havre, France
38.75 x 32.5 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Miss Jane S. Tucker
1998.276
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