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William Jervis Hough and Family

Artist: J. Brayton Wilcox
Sitter: William Jervis Hough, 1795 - 1869; Clarinda Carpenter Hough, 1799 - 1867; William Jerome Hough; Helen Clarinda Hough Stevens, 1837 - 1937?; Frances Jervis Myers, 1838 - 1938?

Date: c. 1852-53

Type: Painting

Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: Accurate: 170.8 x 153.1cm (67 1/4 x 60 1/4"); Frame: 196.9 × 185.4 × 14cm (77 1/2 × 73 × 5 1/2")

Topic: Home Furnishings\Furniture\Seating\Chair; Printed Material\Book; Home Furnishings\Furniture\Table; Home Furnishings\Drape; Architecture\Window; Interior\Domestic; William Jervis Hough: Male; William Jervis Hough: Politics and Government\State Legislator\New York; William Jervis Hough: Law and Crime\Lawyer; William Jervis Hough: Politics and Government\US Congressman\New York; William Jervis Hough: Education and Scholarship\Administrator\Smithsonian Institution\Regent of Smithsonian Institution; Clarinda Carpenter Hough: Female; William Jerome Hough: Male; Helen Clarinda Hough Stevens: Female; Frances Jervis Myers: Female; Portrait

Credit Line: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Violet Shepherd

Restrictions & Rights: CC0

Object number: S/NPG.69.40

Data Source: National Portrait Gallery

Exhibition: Explore! with the National Portrait Gallery
On View: NPG, East Gallery 152