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Portrait #253
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Subject/Title:
| Berry,
Will |
| Artist: | Bowen,
A.E. |
| Date
Created: | 1895 |
| Owner/Location: | Private
Collection |
| Frame Dimensions: | 18
x 14 |
| Image Dimensions: | 17.5
x 12.5 |
| Materials/Media: | watercolor
on paper |
| Date Documented: | 12/10/2003 |
| Condition: | Good |
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| Description: | Full
length of a young boy with long auburn wavy hair that covers his shoulders. He
is dressed reminiscent of Gainesborough's "Little Lord Fauntleroy"
with blue velvet 3-peice suit and extensive lace collar and cuffs. An Irish
setter-type dog lies at his left foot. The artist's signature is in the
lower left, and there is a faint background scene. |
| History: | There
may a photographic image underlying this image. It was painted when the subject
was aged 7-8. |
| Notes: | Subject
died of ptomaine poisoning at age 11 after ingesting bad food at the World's
Fair. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. William Wells Berry.
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