Sarah Belden Gleason
Dateabout 1860
MediumDrawing; pastel on paper in frame
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (height x width): 24 × 19 1/2in. (61 × 49.5cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase
DescriptionBust-length pastel portrait of Sarah Belden Gleason (Mrs. Elon Gleason) attributed to Matthew Wilson. She is in late middle age, with hair parted in the middle and pulled back, several ringlets framing her face. She is wearing a black and white bodice and a white cap with a pink ribbon. A brooch is fastened at her throat. She is wearing eyeglasses.
Object number1973.14.2
On View
Not on viewHannah Scoville Yale
Martha Webster Miller