Museum purchase, 1966.32.2, Connecticut Historical Society, No known copyright

Unidentified woman

Date1841

MediumPainting; oil on canvas in frame

DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (height x width): 12 × 16in. (30.5 × 40.6cm)

ClassificationsPainting

Credit LineMuseum purchase

DescriptionPortrait painting of an unidentified young woman by painter B. C. Palmer (presumably Benjamin C. Palmer). She has blue eyes and brown hair parted in the middle and looped in front of her ears, then gathered in the back. She is wearing a black bodice lined with lace at the collar and fastened with a brooch.

Object number1966.32.2

Inscribed"B.C. Palmer Del"

"Norwalk 1841"

Subject Terms

On View

Not on view