| Object ID |
2000.3.1 |
| Description |
Framed photograph of oil-on-canvas portrait portrait of Moody Kent (b. 1779, d. 1866). Artist: Edwin Tryon Billings (b. 1824, d. 1893). Dimensions of original painting: 40 3/16" x 32 7/8".
Writing on back: "Copy of a portrait in the New Hampshire State Insane Asylum, Concord, N. H., painted by Billings of Moody Kent, born on Kent's Island, Newburyport, April 22, 1779. Graduated Harvard Class 1801, died February 1, 1866. He gave about $250,000 to the above Asylum."
Judging from Secomb's geneaology information, it appears as though he may have been the brother of Amos Kent, who was also born on Kent's Island five years earlier in 1774. This would make him the uncle of George Kent, who lived in the Col. Robert Means Mansion (1 Pierce Lane, Amherst, NH) at the time Secomb's history of Amherst was published. |
| Date of photo |
1840-1860 |
| Source |
William P. and Tracy W. Veillette |
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