I possess a partiality for irregular houses, when you go up and down steps, out of one room into another and when you come upon more rooms when you think you have seen all there are, and where then is a bountiful provision of little halls & passages, and where you find older rooms in unexpected places with lattice windows and green growth pressing through them.
Cornelia Seward Canfield Portrait by John Peter Frankenstein
c. 1830-1835
Oil portrait on canvas of Cornelia Seward Canfield (1805-1839) sister to Sec. William Henry Seward. Painted by German Artist John Peter Frankenstein, John Peter Frankenstein (1816-1881) was a mostly self-taught portrait painter. He quickly became a famous portrait painter and sculptor and worked mostly in Cincinnati, Philadelphia, and New York.