Portrait of C.W. Heppenstall, Sr.
Portrait of C.W. Heppenstall, Sr.
Portrait of C.W. Heppenstall, Sr.

Portrait of C.W. Heppenstall, Sr.

Object number2013.55.1
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MediumOil on canvas; Wood
Credit LineGift of C. Talbot Heppenstall Jr.
DescriptionFramed oil painting on canvas. Portrait of a man who is seated and facing three quarters to the proper right with a red curtain background. He is wearing a three piece black suit with a black and white striped tie, white collared shirt and a white pocket square.Dimensions37 x 32 x 2 in. (94 x 81.3 x 5.1 cm)
SignedArtist signature in bottom right corner "Malcolm Parcell".
InscriptionsPaper Tag Black and gold sticker reads: "W / Wunderly / Galleries / PITTSBURGH, PA" Embossed Backer
Historical NotesC.W. Heppenstall, Sr. was the owner of Heppenstall Company in Lawrenceville. He was born in a suburb of Philadelphia, June 12 1872, and came to Pittsburgh with his parents in 1877. In the summer of 1886, he went to work with his father at the plant of the Howe-Brown Company, as a "broom-off" boy. In 1893, at the age of twenty-one, he started working at Trethewey as an office boy at a salary of twenty dollars per month. By 1939 the company had become Heppenstall Company and he was Chairman of the Board. Heppenstall Company, a steel manufacturer, began in 1885 as Tretheway Company. The Company was incorporated in PA in 1890 and went through several name changes including Pittsburgh Shear Knife & Machine Company, Heppenstall Forge and Knife Company and finally Heppenstall Company in 1930. C. W. Heppenstall Sr. became President in 1923 and Chairman of the Board in 1939. Under Happenstall's management the company grew from a fifty thousand dollar organization to a ten million dollar organization, and in addition to the Pittsburgh Plant, opened anther plant in Bridgeport, Conn. and a warehouse in Detroit, Michigan, and district offices in all the large cities of the United States. The use of forge manipulators and steam hydraulic presses are among C.W. Heppenstall’s contributions to the steel industry.
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