Thomas Atkinson (b. ca. 1768)

Thomas Atkinson was the son of Roger and Anne Pleasants Atkinson of Mansfield Plantation.

Dimensions: 28 1/2 x 23 1/4 in. (72.39 x 59.06 cm.)

The portrait represents a young boy wearing a blue jacket with a white waistcoat. He holds an apple in his right hand and a basket of apples in his left hand. Foliage appears on the left of the canvas. On the right is a detailed view of the family’s Mansfield Plantation with a large home, an outbuilding, and a picket fence.

See: Carolyn J. Weekley, Painters and Paintings of the Early American South (2013): 287; MESDA Database, S-5776