Miss Katherine Kendrick
circa 1844 (Date manufactured/created)
Oil
canvas, painting
42.375 in H
X
37.25 in W
29.75 in H X 24.75 in W
29.75 in H X 24.75 in W
young woman seated in chair wearing beige / tan color Empire-style dress with lace off-the-shoulder collar; she holds small bouquet red flowers in right hand in lap with hands crossed in lap; her long hair tied rear with white bow. Red curtain background left and large bouquet red flowers on table right. Katherine Kendrick (1827-?) was the daughter of Green and Anna Maria Leavenworth Kendrick. Her sister Martha was born in 1829. Katherine married Frederick Gridley Wheeler and moved to Stamford, CT in 1849. Martha never married and lived with her father. Her brother John lived next door in what would later become the first home of the Mattatuck Museum.
Gift of Miss Alice E. Kingsbury
X68.92.1