Description:
Oil portrait on canvas, painted by George Fuller, depicts Dr. Hubbard Bartlett, a physician who lived in Lee, Massachusetts. The painting has an ornate carved and gilded frame presents the sitter in an oval surround. The sitter's right hand side is shown, he is dressed in a black suit jacket, black bowtie, and a white collared shirt, his grey and thinning hair is combed back, Bartlett is shown as an older man of about 70 years of age. The back of the frame has a paper label from the Memorial Exhibition of George Fuller’s Works at the MFA, Boston. The canvas is stenciled, “Prepared/ by /Edwd Dechaux/ New-York.” This is an example of George Fuller's early work. George Fuller (1822-1884) was born in 1822 on his father's farm in Deerfield, Massachusetts. Fuller became an itinerant portrait painter, traveling in upstate New York with his half-brother and aunt. In 1842 he spent several months studying in Albany with sculptor Henry Kirke Brown, a friend from Deerfield whom he had met on the surveying trip. When Brown left for Italy, Fuller returned to Massachusetts, joining the Boston Artists' Association in 1843. For the next five years he executed portrait commissions, dividing his time between Boston and the interior of the state. He then moved to New York City, where he registered in the antique school of the National Academy of Design in 1848. He became an associate member of the Academy in 1853. His years in New York and Brooklyn (to which he moved by 1852) were interrupted by occasional summer trips to Deerfield and trips to the southern states. This portrait of Dr. Hubbard Bartlett was also part of the 1884 Fuller Memorial Exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and listed in the catalog as "William J. Bartlett, Lee, Mass. Portrait of Hubbard Bartlett, M. D., by George Fuller." The portrait has descended within the family.
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