George Frederick Wright Oil Portrait "Edwin Ripley, President of Aetna"

Item Details

George Frederick Wright (American, 1828 – 1881)
Portrait of Edwin Ripley, President of Aetna Insurance Company, 1857-1862, mid to late 19th century
Oil painting on canvas later mounted on panel
Signed to the lower left

George Frederick Wright was born in 1828 in Washington, Connecticut. He studied at the National Academy of Design in New York for one year, before returning to Hartford and overseeing the Wadsworth Athenaeum Gallery for a brief period. In 1857 he traveled abroad to study for two years in Germany and Italy. In 1860, Wright traveled to Springfield, Illinois for the purpose of painting the portrait of Abraham Lincoln, the Republican nominee for president. Lincoln purchased the painting, and after being passed through several private collections it was acquired by the University of Chicago in 1934, where it hangs in the Special Collections Research Center at the University of Chicago Library.

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Condition

- scattered inpainting to face; overpainting notably to shadow on chair and along lower sight edge and lower left corner; item examined under black light; canvas lined and mounted on board; chips and cracks throughout frame; molding reattached and repairs to the lower left corner of frame.

Dimensions

- measures frame; sight measures 33.5" W x 43.5" H.

Item #

ITMG563006