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Portrait
#246
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Subject/Title:
| Armstong,
James Hamilton |
| Artist: | Unknown |
| Date
Created: | 1875 |
| Owner/Location: | Private
Collection |
| Frame Dimensions: | 38
x 32 |
| Image Dimensions: | 29
x 24 |
| Materials/Media: | oil
on canvas |
| Date Documented: | 12/30/2003 |
| Condition: | Good |
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| Description: | Young
child, aged 3, in a white dress and undershorts with a blue sash at the waist.
His arms are upraised, with his right hand hidden by his head. He appears to
be seated on a sofa. |
| History of Work: | Painted
posthumously. Work was restored (in Nashville) to repair a tear created during a move. |
| Notes: | Subject was the younger brother of Mary Elizabeth Napoleon Armstrong, #245, who lived in the Belmont area of Nashville. Subject (1872-1875) drowned in the Cumberland River at age 3.
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