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Portrait #282
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| Subject/Title: | Dunn,
Mrs. William Dixon |
| Artist: | Cooper,
W. B. |
| Date
Created: | 1850 |
| Owner/Location: | Private
Collection |
| Frame Dimensions: | 39
x 34 |
| Image Dimensions: | 28
x 23 |
| Materials/Media: | oil
on canvas |
| Date Documented: | 12/8/2003 |
| Condition: | Excellent |
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| Description: | Oval
waist-length of a young woman with dark brown hair, parted in the middle and
pulled back to cover all of her ears except her left ear lobe. She is wearing
an off-the-shoulder dark red gown, trimmed in transparently painted lace at
the low neckline and on the sleeves. The background is a soft olive green. "W. B. Cooper" is prominent on the right side of the work. |
| History: | The portrait descended in family hands to the current owner. Cleaned ca. 1994 by Lilly Steele, apprenticed under Cynthia Stowe of Cumberland Art Conservation. |
| Notes: | Sophia Louise Horton, daughter of Joseph White Horton & Sophia Western Davis Horton, was born in Nashville in 1828. She married Col. William Dixon Dunn in 1848. They lived in Mobile, Alabama, where Mrs. Dunn died in 1871.
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