Monmouth County - Freehold - Currently at MCHA - A Family Reunited: The Conover Portraits and Polite and Useful Education: Pictorial Needlework Embroidery
CURRENTLY AT THE MONMOUTH COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION MUSEUM A Family Reunited: The Conover Portraits « Diane Turton Sandy Exhibtion Presentation Special Exhibit Reception » Caption: Portrait of William I. Conover (1836 – 1902) by George Henry Durrie. Gift of Mrs. J. Amory Haskell, 1939. MCHA will open a special new exhibit on 2 November entitled “A Family Reunited: The Conover Portraits.” Seven portraits of Tunis V. Conover of Marlboro, his wife Rebecca Crawford Conover, and their three children Hendrick S., Anne B., and William I. Conover, were painted between 1819 and 1855 by three artists who worked in Monmouth County during those years. They were Micah Williams from New Brunswick, George Henry Durrie from Connecticut, and Harvey Jenkins, a local portrait painter. Five of the likenesses commissioned in 1842 from Durrie depict the entire family. Rebecca sat for her first portrait in pastel by Micah Williams in 1819 at age seven. Durrie captured her at age thirty. Then ...