Portrait of Roger Minott Sherman
PAINTING
1840 (Date manufactured/created)
Oil paint, canvas, wood, gesso
73.7 cm. H
X
91.4 cm. W
Measurement Notes: 73.7 cm. x 91.4 cm. (stretcher/image height x width)
48 1/4" H X 41 1/4" W Measurement Notes: 48 1/4" x 41 1/4" (overall height x width with filigree of frame)
48 1/4" H X 41 1/4" W Measurement Notes: 48 1/4" x 41 1/4" (overall height x width with filigree of frame)
Portrait of Roger Minott Sherman, lawyer and judge. Roger Minott Sherman (1773-1844) was named for his uncle, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. He moved to Fairfield shortly after his marriage to Elizabeth Gould in 1796. A lawyer, Sherman was also active in politics, The church and the temperence and anti-slavery movements. The portrait was painted in the spring of 1840, shortley after Mr. Sherman had been appointed a judge of the Superior Court and Supreme Court of Errors of Connecticut.-Hillside and Seaside: Four Centuries of Fairfield Life
Gift of the First Church Congregational
1976.80