Phoebe Hunn Vanderhoef

Periodca. 1785 - 1795

MediumOil on wood panel

Dimensions13.25 × 9.6 in. (33.7 × 24.4 cm)

InscribedInscribed on reverse, "Portrait of / Phoebe Vanderhoef (nee Hunn) / Wife of Cornelius Vanderhoef / Mother of Mary who married / Nicholas Morgan Disbrow / She died April 4th 1808 / Aged 40 yrs. 5 mos., 13 ds. / Painted by her brother / Perry Hunn."

ClassificationsPortraits

Credit LineGift of Mrs. J. Amory Haskell

Object number1983.541

DescriptionHalf length likeness of a young woman facing slightly left, with brown hair and greenish-blue eyes. She wears a brown dress with a white border along the rounded neckline, a white cap with a green bow and green trim along its edge, and a beaded necklace with a green stone pendant. The background of the portrait is black.
Curatorial RemarksThis portrait of Phoebe Hunn Vanderhoef, executed by her brother Perry Hunn, depicts a woman in early adulthood wearing a type of cap popular in the late eighteenth century.NotesPhoebe Hunn was born in 1767, a daughter of Major Thomas Hunn (1735 - 1796) and Catherine Van Emburg (1738 - 1818). Her father was a tavern keeper at Freneau, a small village near Matawan, Monmouth County. Phoebe married Judge Cornelius P. Vanderhoef (1762 - 1816). They became the parents of a daughter and two sons. She died in 1808. The family is interred in the old Presbyterian cemetery at Mount Pleasant near Matawan.

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