Name/Title
Unidentified artist, Mehitable Cutts Appleton Drown, ca. 1806Entry/Object ID
207Description
Oil painting portrait of Mehitable Cutts Appleton Drown (1781-1862) in simple wooden guilt frame. Head and shoulders portrait of a woman in a light colored empire gown. The background is dark. Mehitable Cutts Appleton of Portsmouth married Thomas Pickering Drown.
Collection also includes a small b/w photograph of the sitter as an older woman, in oval frame, with family geneaology inscribed on the back. In the PHS collection at Portsmouth Athenaeum. It also has the LR168 sticker.Collection
Portsmouth Historical Society Curatorial CollectionAcquisition
Accession
207Source or Donor
Ferree, Annie AppletonAcquisition Method
GiftCredit Line
Gift of Mrs. Annie Appleton FerreeInscription/Signature/Marks
Notes
UDF21: modern paper label on bottom back right corner: “Ferree”; modern adhesive label on the rear bottom left corner: “EBC 102”
