Sen. Justin Morrill

Painting

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Vermont Historical Society

Name/Title

Sen. Justin Morrill

Entry/Object ID

1894.4.1

Description

Portrait showing and older man wearing a black three-piece suit, a white shirt with a stand collar, and a black bow tie. He is shown sitting in carved, wooden arm chair holding a newspaper in his right hand and spectacles in his left hand. His grey hair is parted on the side, and he has long sideburns extending toward his mouth in muttonchops. The painting is in an ornate gold frame with carved or molded acanthus leaves.

Type of Painting

Easel

Artwork Details

Medium

Oil

Subject Person

Morrill, Justin Smith (1810-1898)

Acquisition

Accession

1894.4

Source or Donor

Wood, Thomas Waterman (1823-1903)

Acquisition Method

Gift

Made/Created

Artist

Wood, Thomas Waterman (1823-1903)

Date made

1892

Place

City

Montpelier

County

Washington County

State/Province

Vermont

Country

United States of America

Continent

North America

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Painting

Nomenclature Class

Art

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Dimensions

Dimension Description

Overall (unframed)

Height

116.3 cm

Width

81 cm

Dimension Description

Overall (framed)

Height

63 in

Width

49 in

Web Links and URLs

"Justin Smith Morrill" Wikipedia Article, Justin Smith Morrill letters, 1851-1897

Interpretative Labels

Label

Sen. Justin Morrill, 1892 Thomas Waterman Wood (1823-1903) Montpelier, VT Oil on canvas Gift of Thomas Waterman Wood, #A-164 Sen. Justin Morrill served Vermont in the United States House of Representatives from 1855 to 1867 and in the United States Senate from 1867 to 1898. He helped found the Republican party, assisted in drafting the 14th Amendment, and, most famously, wrote the legislation that created the land-grant college system. His home in Strafford is now a Vermont State Historic Site. Thomas W. Wood is arguably Montpelier's most famous artist. The son of a cabinet maker, he was largely self-taught, yet rose to the highest ranks of genre painters in the United States.