Portrait of General Benjamin F. Butler
A selection of works by Alfred J. Wiggin:
Portrait of General Benjamin F. Butler
Benjamin F. Butler was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, and made Gloucester his summer home after the Civil War. He is generally noted as having given the neighborhood of Bay View its name, convinced that the sunsets over Ipswich Bay were equal to anything in the Bay of Naples.
Details
| Artist: | Alfred J. Wiggin |
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| Date of work: | 1869 |
| Medium: | Oil on canvas |
| Accession number: | 1618 |
| Credit line: | Gift of the Gloucester Daily Times, 1952 |