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National Society of Colonial
Dames of
America in Tennessee
Belle Meade Plantation |
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Portrait
#1168
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| Subject/Title: |
Elliston. Selene Jackson | |
| Artist: | Dickinson, Joseph | |
| Date Created: | 20th Century | |
| Owner/Location: | Belle Meade Plantation 5025 Harding Road Nashville, TN 37205 website |
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| Frame Dimensions: | 47” X 37” | |
| Image Dimensions: | 40” X 30” | |
| Date Documented: | 14 December 2007 | |
| Materials/Media: | Oil on canvas | |
| Condition: | Good | |
| Description: | Three-quarter length portrait of Selena Jackson Elliston as a young girl wearing a white dress with orange sash at waist, standing in landscape with cloudy sky and trees at horizon. |
| History of Work: | Signed in lower left corner in black. |
| Notes: | Selene Jackson Elliston was born on 20th August 1876, the third child and second daughter of General William Hicks Jackson. In 1896 Selene married William Robert Elliston. Selene and Billy Elliston had one son William Jackson Elliston born in 1897. In 1900, Billy Elliston was running from the law when he shot a man. Later that year, Selene divorced her husband due to his neglect and abandonment of his family. After being an outcast in Nashville society, she reached out to the Catholic Church, where she was baptized April 24, 1901. In 1913 her substance addiction was found out and she was placed into Stevens Sanitarium where she would pass away, shortly after, at the young age of 37. Location: Taft Bedroom |