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Gift of Kate L. Hayden, 1897.15.0, Connecticut Museum of Culture and History, No known copyrigh…
Rebecca Porter Conner
Gift of Kate L. Hayden, 1897.15.0, Connecticut Museum of Culture and History, No known copyright

Rebecca Porter Conner

PainterPainted by Jared Bradley Flagg American, 1820 - 1899
Date1843
MediumPainting; oil on canvas in frame
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (height x width): 10 × 8in. (25.4 × 20.3cm)
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineGift of Kate L. Hayden
DescriptionPortrait painting of Rebecca Porter Conner by Jared Bradley Flagg after a daguerreotype by J. B. Willard. In the portrait, Conner is a young woman, seated, wearing a gray dress, white mitts, a white muslin cape, and a white bonnet, within which there are sprays of white flowers on either side of her face. There is a long-handled parasol and a small book in her lap.
Object number1897.15.0
InscribedOn a card in the object file, presumably dated from around the time of acquisition (or earlier -- there is no date but the card is yellowed with age and the ink is faded): "Miss Rebecca Porter Conner, / Painted by / Jared B. Flagg in 1843 / after / Daguerreotype by J.D. Willard. / Portrait referred to in poem "To a / Mourner" by M. A. H. Dodd"
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    On View
    Not on view
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    Martha Wadsworth Francis
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    Eliza Sloan Shepard
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    Mary Ann Bull Olmsted
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    Judge Walter Mitchell
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    James Bidwell Gilman
    Jared Bradley Flagg
    1840
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    Eli Gilman
    Jared Bradley Flagg
    probably 1842
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    John Olmsted
    Jared Bradley Flagg
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    George Francis
    Jared Bradley Flagg
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    John Galt
    Jared Bradley Flagg
    1837
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    Rebecca Porter Connor
    Jared Bradley Flagg
    after 1843
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    Virgil Dwight Cornish
    Jared Bradley Flagg
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