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Portrait of a young man in a dark suit and red tie, white pocket handkerchief. Seated in a red upholstered chair with large brass tacks and ornate gilt finials. His right arm is draped next to a red vase on a round side table with arched side panels. His left hand is tucked into his jacket pocket, his right hand holds an open book. Dark paneling and spines of leather bound books in backround.
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"Artful Stories": Henry Sleeper is seen here in his late twenties, around the time he made his first visit to Gloucester, Massachusetts. The following year Sleeper purchased land there and started building the cottage that won him acclaim as an interior decorator, now known as Beauport, the Sleeper-McCann House, an Historic New England property. Bryant painted Sleeper at his widowed mothers Boston house, where he still lived. Seated in a throne-like armchair with his legs crossed, Sleeper is surrounded by books and artworks that reflect his aesthetic sensibility. Highly attuned to color, Sleeper matched his tie perfectly with the oxblood vase to his right.
Sleeper, Henry Davis, 1878-1934
Bryant, Wallace, 1863-1953 (Artist)
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
60 3/8 x 66 1/4 x 2 1/4 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Steven Sleeper
1941.1703
Massachusetts (United States)
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