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Portrait #245
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Subject/Title:
| Armstrong,
Mary Elizabeth Napoleon |
| Artist: | Unknown |
| Date
Created: | ca.
1873 |
| Owner/Location: | Private
Collection |
| Frame Dimensions: | 38
x 33 |
| Image Dimensions: | 29
x 24 |
| Materials/Media: | oil
on canvas |
| Date Documented: | 12/30/2003 |
| Condition: | Excellent |
| Description: | Young
woman, age approx. 16, with waist-length brown hair and light eyes seated with
left arm resting on a table (?) surface and right arm crossed over the left.
She is wearing a white formal dress, a bracelet on her right arm and a ring on
her left forefinger. A glowing dark blue patch of background in the
upper right gives way to the majority dark background treatment. |
| History of Work: | Restored
in 1997. If the subject was as old as 22 this could be a posthumous work. |
| Notes: | Subject was the older sister of #246, James Hamilton Armstrong.
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