Not currently on view
In the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland · as of August 2026
FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG
Posed bolt upright in a billowing satin gown, Hannah Wentworth Atkinson is almost a mannequin for the display of opulent textiles. As the sister of the first royal governor of New Hampshire and the wife of that colony's chief justice and richest man, she was as close to an aristocrat as any person in colonial America. She and her husband found a suitable portrait painter in Joseph Blackburn, who was probably born and trained in England, and was thus familiar with fashionable tastes.
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John Hesselius — Mrs. Thomas Sprigg
Possibly British 18th Century — Portrait of a Lady
John Wollaston the Younger — Portrait of a Woman
Joseph Blackburn — Portrait of Mrs. John Pigott
John Singleton Copley — Jane Browne
John Singleton Copley — Mrs. Henry Hill (Anna Barrett)
Joseph Highmore — Mrs. Freeman Flower
John Singleton Copley — Anne Fairchild Bowler (Mrs. Metcalf 
American 18th Century — Jane Cutler Doane
Frans van der Mijn — Portrait of Maria Henriëtte van de Pol,
John Singleton Copley — Mrs. Daniel Hubbard (Mary Greene)
Jan Abel Wassenbergh — Portrait of Louise Christina Trip
