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Framed photographic print after a portrait of Benjamin Willis. He is in bust, and holds a pair of glasses in his right hand. He has white balding hair, wears a suit jacket and vest and white high collared shirt with a jabot. The frame of the original painting can be seen in the photograph.
photographic prints
paper (fiber product)
wood (plant material)
Print, Photographic
"Benjamin Willis Born Charles Town, Mass., Mar.[...] 1768/ Died Haverhill Mass. Oct 2 1853/ mar Mary Mc Kinstry./ Their daughter Mary became the wife/ of James H. Ducan of Haverhill./ Photograph by Victory of Haverhill of an/ original painting at miss Caroline/ Ducans in Haverhill. Feb. 1907./ The original is a painting in oil on canvas/ and hung for forty years over the mantel/ in the Library at Haverhill. It was painted/ by [blank] Cole about 1825. A very/ similar portrait perhaps a copy, is in/ possession of Georgge Willis's family, see/ Pauline Willis's book page 42./ Labelled 1907 by Stephen W. Phillips/ The portrait now belongs to/ James H. Duncan of Searsport, ME. April 1924 (handwritten)
Willis, Benjamin, 1768-1853
Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
P655
Unknown
11 13/16 x 10 12/16 x 1 2/16 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.1078
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