Nationality
American
Artist Dates
19th c.
Preview
Date of Work
1839
Medium
Oil on board
Collection/Provenance
UND Art Foundation Collection
Status
Stored: 234 CB
Location
UND Art Collections Repository
Additional Information
Painted in Enosburgh, Vermont, by a self-taught itinerant painter, the enchanting work compares stylistically with other stiffly posed and awkwardly drawn portraits by early American limners. Interestingly, the decorative painting was executed the year of the Daguerreotype’s invention, which introduced photography as a means to capture likenesses and soon competed with the portrait painter’s trade.
The portrait was restored and framed by Professor Paul E. Barr, whose painting is also included in the exhibition. Barr was the first chair of UND’s Department of Art.
Text panel version 2:
Painted in Enosburgh, Vermont, by a self-taught itinerant painter, the enchanting work compares stylistically with other stiffly posed and awkwardly drawn portraits by early American limners. After UND acquired the portrait in 1937, it was restored and framed by Paul E. Barr, the first chair of UND's Art Department.
Like the paintings on display by Nollekens and Shayer, this portrait was used to decorate the J. Lloyd Stone Alumni Center until 2012, when UND Art COllections was asked to take charge of its care. Missing from the UND's collection, however, is an oil portrait of 31-year-old H. L. Fuller Eaton, which was painted the same year as the Portrait of Harriet Eaton Ross.
Text panel from LOST:
Portrait of H. L. Fuller Eaton, 31 Years Old
Painted in Vermont by a self-taught itinerant painter the portrait has a companion piece that is in the exhibition, Portrait of Harriet Eaton Ross (1835-1863) at 4 years old, which was painted the same year ad represents a member of the same family, The missing portrait, for which no photographic record is currently available, was once located in the North Dakota Room at the Chester Fritz Library (according to records dating from 1979). A search for the missing portrait is ongoing.