Frank Benson at the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA

I discovered a couple of Bensons yesterday on a visit to the excellent Peabody Essex Museum in historic Salem, just north of Boston, on a beautiful September Sunday. This is a splendid portrait of Jane Shattuck, painted in 1904. Click on these images to enlarge them.

Twenty years later, after Benson had pretty much given up accepting commissions for portraits, he painted this portrait of his dear friend Richard Saltonstall who had died two years earlier.

These images are offered courtesy of the Peabody Essex Museum.