Painting [realia] : Joseph Hooker. 1885 circa.

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Painting [realia] : Joseph Hooker. 1885 circa.

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Oil on canvas painting is a bust portrait of General Joseph Hooker, also known as "Fighting Joe." The portrait shows General Hooker wearing his army uniform and facing towards the right. Silas Martin, who painted the portrait around 1885, signed the canvas near the subject's right shoulder.

1 item ; 56 cm x 68.5 cm.

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Hooker, Joseph, 1814-1879

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Hooker was born in Hadley, Massachusetts, the grandson of a captain in the American Revolutionary War. He was of entirely English ancestry, all of which had been in New England since the early 1600s. His initial schooling was at the local Hopkins Academy. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1837, ranked 29th out of a class of 50, and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the 1st U.S. Artillery. His initial assignment was in Florida fighting in the second of the Seminole War...

Martin, Silas.

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Silas Martin (1841-1906) was born and raised in Westerville, Ohio, a small community north of Columbus. He studied with noted portrait painter John H. Witt, who is remembered for the numerous Ohio governors' portraits he painted. Martin served as head of the art department at The Ohio State University from 1898 until 1906. One of his most famous and devoted pupils was fellow Ohioan George Bellow. From the description of Painting [realia] : Olive Loring Martin. 1875-1885. (Ohio Histor...