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Maker(s):Bundy, Horace
Culture:American (1814 - 1883)
Title:Portrait of a Man
Date Made:1847
Type:Painting
Materials:oil on canvas
Place Made:United States
Measurements:stretcher: 28 x 24 in.; 71.12 x 60.96 cm
Narrative Inscription:  signed and dated on verso: H. Bundy Painter/Claremont May 1847
Accession Number:  SC 1957.62
Credit Line:Gift of Mrs. Brooks Shepard (Hortense Oliver, class of 1916)
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
half length portrait of seated serious, clean shaven man in dark suit, white shirt, dark tie, short dark hair, against plain background; man; costume/uniform

Label Text:
Horace Bundy was born in Hardwick, Vermont, and lived for a time in Lowell, Massachusetts, where he married Louisa Lockwood in 1837. he was an Adventist as well as an itinerant portrait artist (though without formal training), and in his work and travels throughout New England he combined both callings. He became pastor of the Second Advent Church in Lakeport, New Hampshire, in 1863, and by the 1870's he was producing few portraits. A trip in 1883 to Jamaica and a wealthy planter patron he met there renewed his interest in painting, but before returning to his country he died from the typhus he presumably contracted during his visit.

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