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Three-quarter bust portrait of Henry Bowen (1813-1896) in a dark suit, white shirt, and gold shirt pin; bearded and balding gray hair. Classical draped curtain in background and Roseland Park in distance. Under glass in gilded frame, composed of four alternating decorative bands.
portraits
paintings (visual works)
canvas
oil paint (paint)
Painting
Painted By/ J. J. Sawyer / Oct. 1880 (Painted)
Bowen, Henry Chandler, 1813-1896
Original to Roseland Cottage (Woodstock, Conn.),
Probably Sawyer, James J., 1813-1888 (Maker)
Putnam, CT, USA
41 1/2 x 36 3/8 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Margaret Carson Holt
1970.733
1880 (October 1880)
Connecticut (United States)
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