and this was commissioned from the decorative artist and portraitist winthrop chandler whose self-portrait i showed at the very beginning. ebenezer sternly sits on a fashionable but restrained chippendale chair. chandler is so much the decorative artist, so much the realist that he depicts every one of the tacks in chandler's chair including the ones that are -- the empty spaces where they're missing. so again, focus on ver similitude, that he's interested in giving light to the face as well as the chair, which i think is also the characteristics of much of this. he's sitting there with his well thumbed book collection of books, and i've thumbed through those books in the brookline public library. and they're culled from geneva, from london, they're really an atlantic world library.so this most of these goods in the 1760s, 1770s are ebenezer owns a london tall clock at a time when tall clocks were relatively rare. what's really interesting to me is after the war for independence, a newly decentralized world of goods and consumers refashions luxury goods like tall clocks, like weighty, impo

and i wanted to start with winthrop chandler who in many ways sort of begins my project both in chronological terms as well as how i sort of thought about it. i've spent a lot of time with the antiquarian society and also in worcester county. the clockmakers, chairmakers thinking about gardner and