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Portrait #929
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Subject/Title:
| Colby, Mary Lowe (Roberts) |
| Artist: | Little, Eleanor Colby |
| Date
Created: | 1946 |
| Owner/Location: | Private Collection |
| Frame Dimensions: | 23" x 27 1/2" |
| Image Dimensions: | 19" x 23 1/2" |
| Materials/Media: | Oil on canvas |
| Date Documented: | 1 October 2007 |
| Condition: | Excellent |
| Description: | Three-quarter portrait of seated lady (in red armchair) wearing a dark dress with a large lace collar at the v-neck. She wears a white bonnet over her dark hair, and the ribbons from the bonnet are loose to her chest. Both hands are visible, and a book seems to be in her left hand. |
| History of Work: | Copy of life-size portrait in house on Beacon Hill in Boston, MA Belonged to another descendant - Current owner of portrait is great-granddaughter of subject. |
| Notes: | Subject was wife of Gardner Colby for whom Colby College in Watertown, Maine was named.
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