this was commissioned from the decorative artist winthrop chandler. ebeneezer sternly sits on a fashionable but restrained chippendale chair. he is such the artist that he picks every one of the tacks in chandler's chair. it is focus on the versatility that he is giving equal light to the face as well as the chair, which i think is one of the characteristics of much of this. he is sitting there with his well thumbed book collection. i thumbed through the books in the brookline public library. they are called from london and geneva. this is a world where most of the goods in the 1770s are imported. ebeneezer owns a london tall clock at a time when tall clocks are rare. what is interesting to me after the war for independence, a newly decentralized world of goods and consumers refashions luxury goods like tall clocks and weighty and imported l literary tones. you get a whole range of chairs like this philadelphia chair here with the incredible carving by a scottish immigrant thomas affleck and a whole host of chair makers. this drapes off of this. you ge