Artwork Details
- Title
- Mrs. Ebenezer Williams
- Artist
- Unidentified
- Date
- ca. 1825
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- sight 2 1⁄2 x 2 in. (6.2 x 5.1 cm) oval
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through the Catherine Walden Myer Fund
- Mediums
- Mediums Description
- watercolor on ivory
- Keywords
- Portrait female — Williams, Ebenezer, Mrs. — bust
- Object Number
- 1962.7.2
Artwork Description
Ebenezer Williams was born in New London, Connecticut, in 1769, and married Martha Porter in 1794. A piece of paper enclosed in the back of Mr. Williams’s miniature reads: “This locket of hair was taken from my father’s head, January 17, 1825.” With their stern expressions and sober clothing, Mr. and Mrs. Williams embody nineteenth-century propriety. Mr. Williams appears less stern than he might, however, with the glasses perched on top of his head.