Painter:

Field, Erastus Salisbury 1805-1900  Search this

Subject:

Ball, Dyer  Search this

Medium:

Oil on canvas

Type:

Paintings

Owner/Location:

Museum of Fine Arts 220 State Street Springfield Massachusetts 01103 Accession Number: 63.09

Date:

1838

Notes:

Museum of Fine Arts, 1972.

"Selections from the American Collections of the Museum of Fine Arts and the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum," Springfield, MA: Springfield Library and Museums Association, 1999, pg. 64-65.

Black, Mary, "Erastus Salisbury Field: 1805-1900," Springfield, MA: Museum of Fine Arts, 1984.

Summary:

Portrait of Rev. Dyer Ball seated at a mahogany writing table, a quill pen in his hand and a half-written letter on top of the table. His letter concerns his and his wife's trip to China for missionary work. An orb of reddish light appears in the background over his right shoulder.

Topic:

Primitive  Search this

Portrait male--Waist length  Search this

Occupation--Religion--Clergy  Search this

Occupation--Medicine--Doctor  Search this

Occupation--Religion--Missionary  Search this

Object--Other--Writing Tool  Search this

Recreation--Leisure--Letter Reading & Writing  Search this

Object--Written Matter--Letter  Search this

Control number:

IAP 22930077

Data Source:

Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_ari_270823