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Portrait
#1185
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Subject/Title:
| Bertinatti, Eugenia Patience Bate (Countess) |
| Artist: | Unknown |
| Date Created: | unknown |
| Owner/Location: | Private Collection |
| Frame Dimensions: | 39 x 34 |
| Image Dimensions: | 19 1/2 x 24 1/2 |
| Materials/Media: | Oil on canvas |
| Date Documented: |
13 March 2008 |
| Condition: | Good |
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| Description: | The Countess is sitting facing slightly to the viewer's right with her left arm across her waist. She is wearing a dark dress of heavy material with a deep v-neckline which has a highly decorated border of about three inches. The dress has a white ruffled bodice inside. She has a slight smile. Her hair is dark, parted in the middle, and worn over her ears. |
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| Notes: | She was born 6 September 1826 and died 9 December 1906. She was married to a Mr. Bass who died 2 May 1855 then to the Italian Ambassador to the U. S., Count Joseph Bertinetti, in 1865. She is buried in Washington with her first husband and children.
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