Susanna Howell Munson
PainterPainted by
Unknown
SubjectPossibly portrait of
Susanna Howell Munson
1741 - 1805
MediumPainting; oil on canvas in frame
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineConnecticut Museum of Culture and History collection
DescriptionPortrait by an unknown painter of Susanna Howell. She is pictured in late middle age, and is wearing a black dress, a white lace shawl around her shoulders, and a tall white mob cap trimmed with a white ribbon. She is framed within a painted oval.
Object number2023.1.18
MarkingsPrinted on label affixed to masonite backing board: "LYMAN ALLYN MUSEUM / Conservation Laboratory / Surface Coatings / On This Painting Are / B-67-B72 in toluene / Final: B72 with bareco wax added / Date: July 1977"InscribedVerso, handwritten on tag affixed to masonite board: "Abigail / Punderson / wife of / Benjamin Munson / [horizontal line] / Mother of / Aeneas Munson / Sr"""Aunt Stella" / This ticket written by SEM"
Handwritten on piece of paper in envelope affixed to masonite board: "This portrait said by authorities to be / Susanna Howell wife of Eneas Monson, Sr. / On the frame in what appears to be the / handwriting of SEM (Aunt Stella) or EDM / is the name Abigail Punderson, the / monther of Eneas Monson, Sr. / correspondence is in my file "Susannah Howell" / SPH"
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Unknown
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Ellen Clark
Unknown
1810