Artist/Maker
Asa Weston Twitchell
(American, 1820 – 1904)
After
Charles Loring Elliott
(American, 1812 – 1868)
Depicted
James Fenimore Cooper
(1789 - 1851)
James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)
After 1845
Oil on canvas
Overall: 30 x 24 3/4 in. ( 76.2 x 62.9 cm )
Purchase, The Louis Durr Fund
1933.1
This portrait was copied from the original which Charles Loring Elliott painted ca. 1845. Twitchell, who spent most of his career as a portrait painter in Albany, had studied with Elliott, who had also begun his career in Albany--then the social, economic, and governmental hub located about 55 miles from the subject's family estate at Cooperstown.
ClassificationsPAINTINGS
George Harvey
1830s-1840s
1947.558
