James Holmes Hendrickson

Artist Harvey Jenkins

Period1854

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions30 × 25 in. (76.2 × 63.5 cm)

SignedOn a card attached to the upper rear stretcher, "Painted by / Harvey Jenkins / completed / June 1854."

ClassificationsPortraits

Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Edwards Rullman, 2008

Object number2008.12.2

DescriptionMan with body facing forward, head slightly turned to the right. Dressed in a black suit with vest, white shirt, and black tie.
Curatorial RemarksThis is one of four related Borden/Hendrickson family portraits given by the donors. NotesJames Holmes Hendrickson (1823 - 1900) was a son of Tobias Hendrickson and Margaret Perrine. He owned and operated the Globe Hotel on East Front Street in Red Bank in partnership with his brother Samuel. About 1855 he married Mary Ellen Borden of Shrewsbury. Hendrickson died in Red Bank in 1900. He and his wife were both interred at Fair View Cemetery in Middletown.

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Portraits

ProvenanceJames Holmes Hendrickson (1823 - 1900); to his daughter Annie J. Hendrickson Edwards (1860 - 1940); to her daughter Margaret Edwards Rullman (1894 - 1983); to her son Edwards Rullman (1921 - 2016), the donor.