Charles Robbins Place

New Ipswich Historical Society

Charles Robbins worked with Samuel Slater in the first cotton mill in America in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Charles Barrett brought Robbins to New Ipswich to work in the New Ipswich cotton mill in Bank Village. This is his home. Location and date unknown.

On this day - March 29, 1898

William Jurian Kaula diary

29 Apr 1897

Zorn seems to be entitled to carry away the honors at the New Salon with two with two portraits that are painted with his wonderful dash and spirit and so full of life and color as to give a startling impression that is at once so pleasing and satisfactory that the portraits in the rest of the collection appear to lack much life.  He paints with the directness of a master and his cleverness is the talk of the town.  A huge canvas by Gervex that represents a great assembly of people in the Palais de l'Industrié is highly colored and finished in a realistic manner that would please the ordinary spectator.  It is a faithful reproduction of facts.  Of this painter Will H. Low said he would please those people who had obtained their ideas of art and nature from photography.  Of the many other large works their size is their chief distinction.

Carolus Duran is now an old man and was once among the leading portrait painters but his few canvases seem to lack the qualities that made him so famous.

Dagnan-Bouveret has no important work and exposes a few small portraits which are good but do not give an idea of his strength as a painter of masterpieces.

Lhermitte the peasant painter also exposes a few small works which are of open-air life that are as usual splendid compositions and rendered in his peculiar color and manner.  I like his color in his pastels much better than in these works in oils as it is much truer to nature.  These works show a great improvement in his feeling for color over the large work which is in the Luxembourg Gallery.

On this day - March 29, 1909

James Roger diary entry

29th (Monday)

Sharp frost, wind north.  David took Pete to Greenville to get clipped.  He broke loose during the night, wandered about bard.  D came home about 1230 then went to blacksmith’s shop and came up with Mr. Huckins, went over with him and stayed till after 5 pm.  Mrs. Obear called in forenoon and Mrs. Peacock called in the afternoon.  Academy dance tonight.