This oil-on-canvas portrait of John Pike Towne was painted in the 1860s by the Reverend George Chapman. Chapman was minister of the Topsfield Methodist Episcopal Church (1866-1867). The Towne family was a prosperous founding family of Topsfield. In 1651, William Towne of Salem purchased the farmland in the area between South Main, Salem Road and the Ipswich River.
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Seth Bond [photographer] ; Reverend George Chapman [artist]