Jeremiah Wadsworth and His Son Daniel Wadsworth, (painting).

Jeremiah Wadsworth and His Son Daniel Wadsworth, (painting).

Trumbull, John, 1756-1843, painter.

Jeremiah Wadsworth and His Son Daniel Wadsworth, (painting).

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36 1/4 x 28 1/2 in. (92.1 x 72.4 cm).

Portrait of Jeremiah Wadsworth (1743-1804) seated in a chair beside a table, his thirteen-year-old son Daniel (1771-1849) standing beside him, resting his hands on his father's shoulder and staring at his father's face. The father faces toward his son, though does not look directly at him. In his lap he holds a paper, others are strewn across the table and a scroll rolls out onto the floor below his chair. Several books are on the table. In the background there is a window with the mast of a sailing ship and an American flag visible.

Portrait group -- Family -- Father & Child

Portrait male -- Wadsworth, Jeremiah -- Full length

Portrait male -- Wadsworth, Daniel -- Full length

Architecture interior -- Domestic -- House

Architecture interior -- Detail -- Window

Object -- Written Matter -- Book

Object -- Written Matter -- Scroll

Wadsworth Atheneum, 600 Main Street, Hartford, Connecticut 06103 Accession Number: 1970.42

Formerly in the collection of Wadsworth, Jeremiah, Hartford, Connecticut

Wadsworth, Catherine (Mrs. Nathaniel Terry), 1804-1941.

Gift of Adams, Faneuil, Cambridge, Massachusetts 1970.

Wadsworth Atheneum, 1974.

Sizer, Theodore, "The works of Colonel John Trumbull, artist of the American Revolution," Rev. ed., New Haven: Yale University Press, 1967.

American Heritage, Vol. XVIII, No. 3, 1967.

Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin, "American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum," New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1996, pg. 733.

Sizer, "Trumbull," Yale U. Press, 1967, fig. 85.

American Heritage, Vol. XVIII, No. 3, pg. 51.

Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin, "American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum," New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1996, plate 126.

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