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Portrait
#1446
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Subject/Title:
| Bosley, Gertrude |
| Artist: | Unknown |
| Date
Created: | ca. 1860 |
| Owner/Location: | Private Collection |
| Frame Dimensions: | 42 x 31 |
| Image Dimensions: | 34 x 29 |
| Materials/Media: | Oil on canvas |
| Date Documented: | 30 May 2008 |
| Condition: | Fair |
| Description: | Portrait of a young woman in a short sleeve white dress with a white, black, and red ermine wrap. Her left arm hold the wrap at her shoulder, her right arm crosses her mid-section. At her right elbow are a white rose and a red rose (symbolic of eternal love). Portrait is in a rectangular gilt-gesso frame with oval interior. |
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| Notes: | Gertrude Bosley (1843-1863) married Powhatan Bowling in 1862 and died in childbirth in 1863.
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