Name/Title
The Three Daughters of Capt. and Mrs. Francis AmyEntry/Object ID
2008.0416.005Description
Oil portrait of the three daughters of Captain and Mrs. Francis Amy
Left to right: Caroline Amy, Harriet Swan Amy, Abby Pendleton Amy.
Caroline, Harriet and Abby were 34, 27 and 22 when they sat for this portrait in 1853.
3 young ladies sitting/standing together, 2 looking proper left, 1 proper right.
1 wearing blue dress with black veil, lace collar
1 wearing black bodice with white skirt, sleeves, lace collar, holding box with long strand of pearls, sitting on red chair, red and brown curtains behind
1 wearing green top with lace collar
Size: 40 x 50 inches
Artist: Phineas Stanton
The three daughters of Captain and Mrs. Francis Amy
Caroline Amy, baptised 29 June 1823, died 30 January 1860 ae 41 unm., an invalid; Harriet Swan Amy, born 29 October 1827, m. 10 March 1857 charles I. Richards of North Attleboro MA, died 17 July 1918; Abby Pendleton Amy, born c 1831, died 3 June 1864, ae 33 unm.
The daughters of Francis Amy lived across Cannon Square from the Ocean Bank, in the handsome Greek Revival house on the site of 9 Main Street, which burned in December 1937. Caroline, Harriet and Abby were 34, 27 and 22 when they sat for this portrait in 1853. Of the Francis Amys' fifteen children, only these daughters and two brothers survived childhood; of these five only Harriet, Mrs. Charles I. Richards lived to survive her parents. Harriet Amy Richards died in 1918; in 1927 her daughter, Frances Amy Richards gave the Stonington Historical Society the pair of portraits of Capt. and Mrs. Amy by Phineas Stanton now in the Woolworth Library. This portrait came to the Society after the death of Miss Richards in 1939.Collection
SHS Art CollectionMade/Created
Artist Information
Artist
Phineas StantonRole
ArtistDate made
1853