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Portrait #1654
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Subject/Title:
| Currin, Elizabeth Jenkins |
| Artist: | Cooper, William |
| Date
Created: | ca. 1830 |
| Owner/Location: | Private Collection |
| Frame Dimensions: | 39 x 34 1/2 |
| Image Dimensions: | 29 1/2 x 24 1/2 |
| Materials/Media: | Oil on canvas |
| Date Documented: | 2008 |
| Condition: | Excellent |
| Description: | Subject is seated and wearing a black dress with a white collar and white bonnet tied with a bow uner her chin. Only her left hand is visible. Her dark hair is parted in the middle and revealed slightly in front of her bonnet. |
| History of Work: | Passed through the Currin, Bell and Murfree families. |
| Notes: | Subject born in Williamson County Tennessee in 1794. She married Jonathan Currin in Williamson County in 1813. Mr. Currin built a mansion on the south side of Murfreesboro, of which Elizabeth was Mistress, as well as several buildings on the East side of the public square which still exist.
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