Museum Object Number1952.0282.002 A |
Painting (Portrait)
Elizabeth Waldo Austin (Mrs. Benjamin Austin)
Paintings
Gift of Henry Francis du Pont
John Greenwood (Artist)
Greenwood was the son and grandson of prosperous Boston shipwrights. He was apprenticed to the engraver and japanner Thomas Johnston for three years, and then began his career as a portrait painter. In 1752, he sailed for Surinam and did not return to America. He painted more than one hundred portraits, and in his later years (after 1773) was a dealer in art objects in London, where he died.
1727
1792
Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
1747-1752
Portrait
Oil paint; Canvas
Painted
36 (H) , 28.622 (W)
91.5 (H) , 72.7 (W)
H at proper right stretcher. W at bottom.
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