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National Society of Colonial
Dames of
America in Tennessee
Portrait #196 |
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| Subject/Title: | Bleecker,
Frances Wade (Mrs Alexander Bleecker) 1787-1856 |
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| Artist: | Cushman, George Hewett 1814-1876 | |
| Date Created: | ca. 1850 | |
| Owner/Location: | Cheekwood Museum of Art Nashville, TN |
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| Frame Dimensions: | NA | |
| Image Dimensions: | 2 3/4" x 2 1/16" | |
| Materials/Media: | watercolor on ivory | |
| Date Documented: | 2/22/2004 | |
| Condition: | Excellent |
| Description: | Frame
is rectangular stamped metal over wood. An appropriate frame for the time it
was painted, but not the original. Gauzy, light brown treatment of a young woman in a simple v-neck cream dress. Her light brown hair is pulled up and has a loose quality. |
| History: | Painted
in Philadelphia. This is a copy of Malbone's miniature ca. 1803 which was
Frances Wade's engagement picture. This miniature passed down to Cushman's
granddaughter, who gave it to a friend, who sold it to Ed Sheppard in 1995.
Frances Bleecker went on to have nine children. The Malbone miniature
was in Philadelphia ca. 1896 and a color picture of it was used as the
frontispiece of Anne Wharton Hollingsworth's book "Heirlooms in
Miniature." Exhibited at Huntsville 1996; Gibbes 2000. Illus in Huntsville catalog/American Art Review, Vol. VIII, No. 1, 1996, page 135. |
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