Gilbert Chace Dean
Edwin Plummer
(American, 1802–1880)
about 1834
Medium/TechniqueOil on canvas
DimensionsOverall: 85.1 x 72.4 cm (33 1/2 x 28 1/2 in.)
Credit LineGift of the family in memory of Laura Baker Paine, wife of Ernest Merle Mills
Accession number2012.1081
ClassificationsPaintings
ProvenanceBy 1860, Eliza Dean Borden (1817-1900), Fall River, MA, sister of sitter, inherits painting; by 1900, by inheritance, to her daughter Adelaide Borden Paine (1839-1927), Fall River, MA; by 1927, by inheritance, to her son Andrew Dean Paine (1870-1943), Providence, RI; by January 1, 1940, to his daughter Laura Baker Paine Mills (1908-1969), New Jersey; by 1969, to her daughter Jeannette Myrle Mills (b.1938), Naples, FL; September 11, 1979, Jeannette Myrle Mills marries J. Raymond Edward Boucher, Naples, FL; December 2012, gift of Jeannette Boucher to the MFA. (Accession date: February 27, 2013)
