{"id":4,"date":"2010-04-16T22:09:24","date_gmt":"2010-04-17T02:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eunicepomfret.com\/?page_id=4"},"modified":"2010-04-16T22:42:57","modified_gmt":"2010-04-17T02:42:57","slug":"who-is-eunice-pomfret","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.eunicepomfret.com\/?page_id=4","title":{"rendered":"Meet Eunice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eunicepomfret.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/eunice.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6\" title=\"eunice\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eunicepomfret.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/eunice.png\" alt=\"Eunice\" width=\"250\" height=\"288\" \/><\/a>There is no Eunice Pomfret. There was, however, a Eunice Vail Wood of Pomfret, Vt. Her portrait, painted in about 1830, hangs in the office of our founder, Patricia J. Washburn, Eunice&#8217;s six-times-great-granddaughter. Eunice&#8217;s lasting beauty and classic style exemplify the qualities we hope to bring to each project we do.<\/p>\n<p><em>More about Eunice<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Eunice (Vail) Wood was the granddaughter of a Revolutionary War veteran and grew up in Pomfret, Vt. She married a Congregational minister, Amos Wood, and raised seven children. When she was growing up, Pomfret was still a bit rough around the edges, having been carved out of the wilderness a mere 50 years before she was born. This portrait, painted when she was about 27, shows her as a young mother. Portraits like these were not just commemorations of a person&#8217;s likeness, but also of the family&#8217;s aspirations to gentility and middle-class good taste. Alas, the painter most likely painted the body first and then added Eunice&#8217;s head when he got the commission, so she probably never wore that gown, cloak or necklace in real life.<\/p>\n<p><em>More about the painting<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The painting is unsigned, but is believed to be by an itinerant portraitist named Benjamin Franklin Mason (1804-1871), who plied his trade around the Pomfret area. His works hang in several Vermont museums, and one of his paintings was included in an exhibit of &#8220;American Provincial Paintings&#8221; at the Whitney Museum in New York in 1942. Eunice&#8217;s portrait is listed in the <a href=\"http:\/\/americanart.si.edu\/research\/programs\/inventory\/\">Smithsonian Inventory of American Paintings<\/a>. In 2009 it was moved from Massachusetts, where it had hung for more than 40 years, to Portland, Maine, and was restored by <a href=\"http:\/\/bdmattozzi.com\/\">B.D. Matozzi<\/a>, with frame restoration by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.micheleacarondesigns.com\">Michele Caron<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is no Eunice Pomfret. There was, however, a Eunice Vail Wood of Pomfret, Vt. Her portrait, painted in about 1830, hangs in the office of our founder, Patricia J. Washburn, Eunice&#8217;s six-times-great-granddaughter. Eunice&#8217;s lasting beauty and classic style exemplify the qualities we hope to bring to each project we do. More about Eunice Eunice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eunicepomfret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eunicepomfret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eunicepomfret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eunicepomfret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eunicepomfret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.eunicepomfret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eunicepomfret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}