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Collection Record Detail
Object Name
Oil Painting - Mabel Ruggles Canfield
Object Number
1955-02-2
Description
Oil on canvas portrait of Mabel Ruggles Canfield, (1760-?), 1/2 length of an old woman facing right, wearing a black dress, ruffled mull collar and ruffled cap with bow tie at neck. Brown curls, blue eyes and sunken mouth, Sitting a side chair upholstered in red. See 1955-02-1 for companion portrait of her husband, Judge Judson Canfield. Painted in 1839 at the age of 78.
Comment
Mabel Ruggles Canfield (1760) was born one of thirteen children, the daughter of Captain Lazarus Ruggles, a prosperous farmer, owner of a grist mill and ironworks. Mabel married Judson Canfield on March 5, 1786. In 1815, after losing his house in Sharon because of poor finances, the couple and two daughters moved to Canfield, Ohio which had been named after Judson in 1798 when he bought the land. She did not like it in Canfield and so she moved back east, he followed shortly thereafter. See Ralph Earl portrait of her as a younger woman, 1917-04-4.
Category
Date Made
June 1839
Dimensions
Painting: 30" x 25"; Frame: 33" x 27 3/4"
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