ATTRIBUTED TO ZEDEKIAH BELKNAP | KIRK DEARBORN PIERCE

Peter Tillou Collection, Litchfield, Connecticut;

Marguerite Riordan, Stonington, Connecticut.

Peter Tillou and Paul Rovetti, Nineteenth-Century Folk Painting: Our Spirited National Heritage, (Storrs, Connecticut: The William Benton Museum of Art, 1973), cat. no. 90;

Elizabeth R. Mankin, "Zedekiah Belknap," Antiques, November 1976, p. 1063, pl. VI

Kirk Dearborn Pierce (1845-1928), was the son of New Hampshire Governor, Benjamin Pierce and nephew of New Hampshire senator and fourteenth president of the United States, Franklin Pierce. Born and raised in Hillsboro, New Hampshire, Kirk became a lawyer, serving for many years with the US Circuit Court, Department of the Interior. In 1879, he married Mary Collins and had two daughters, Mary and Susan Pierce, neither of whom married, and the family resided in Franklin Pierce Homestead on South Main Street in Concord for many years.