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Chester (Charles) Harding American
Clarissa Baldwin (1791-1841) wears the fashionable costume, with ermine-lined silk taffeta cape and ostrich-plumed hat, that she probably wore in 1827 to the cornerstone ceremony for the monument commemorating the Battle of Bunker Hill. Her brother was the civil engineer for the project.
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Title: Mrs. Thomas Brewster Coolidge
Artist:
Chester (Charles) Harding (American, Conway, Massachusetts 1792–1866 Boston, Massachusetts)
Date: ca. 1827
Culture: American
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 36 1/4 x 28 in. (92.1 x 71.1 cm)
Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1920
Object Number: 20.75
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