Portrait+of+Agnes+Elizabeth+Claflin

Date: 1873
 * [[image:https://s3.amazonaws.com/saam.media/files/styles/x_large/s3/images/1985/1985.27_1a.jpg?itok=cLKw1rzG width="199" height="285" link="@https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/portrait-agnes-elizabeth-claflin-10973"]] || Title: **Portrait of Agnes Elizabeth Claflin**

Artist: **William Morris Hunt** Born: Brattleboro, Vermont 1824 Died: Appledore, New Hampshire 1879

Medium: oil on canvas mounted on fiberboard Dimensions: 51 3/4 x 36 in. (131.6 x 91.5 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Museum purchase

Accession: 1985.27 || About Agnes Elizabeth Claflin: Daughter of William Claflin, she died at age nineteen (in 1869 – though strangely the date on this portrait is 1873 – was it posthumous?) William Claflin was an industrialist and philanthropist who served as Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from 1869-1872 and as a member of the United States Congress from 1877-1881. The AAA has a letter to William Claflin, dated August 21, 1873, regarding Hunt's PORTRAIT OF AGNES ELIZABETH CLAFLIN (William Claflin's daughter). Hunt offers to show Claflin the "best way of turning the picture for the proper light." Also included is a receipt for three thousand dollars for the portrait.
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Agnes Elizabeth Claflin was born on 31 Jul 1849 in Massachusetts. She died in Rome, Italy on 30 Jan 1869. Parents: William Claflin and Mary Bucklin Davenport.

“Died. In Rome, Italy, January 30th, 1869, Agnes Elizabeth, youngest daughter of Governor William Claflin, aged nineteen years and six months.” -Claflin, Agnes Elizabeth, Christine C Brush and Christine Chaplin. //From Shore to Shore: A Journey of Nineteen Years//. Riverside Press: Printed, 1873.



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