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Rectangular format, waist-length portrait of a man in a dark brown oval, facing slightly to the right; he wears a white collar, a dull blue coat, a rusty rose vest, and has dark eyes and his hair back in a queue.
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Picture
Portrait
Coated Canvas
Painted
Oil on Canvas
Portrait
Written in black letters on the image is: SAM L WATERS/AEt 28. Typewritten on a jelly label on the lower left of the frame reverse is: ""SAMUEL WATERS, 1750-1828/ of Sutton, Mass./Painted by Winthrop Chandler,/between March and November 1779. On the lower right of the frame reverse written in pencil is: ""Bowdoin""
Waters, Samuel
Waters, Prudence
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
1991.1067
Chandler, Winthrop, 1747-1790 (Maker)
Woodstock, CT, USA
28.75 x 25.5 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1067.1
Connecticut (United States)
Massachusetts (United States)
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