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Portrait #220
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| Subject/Title: | Formosa,
Angelo |
| Artist: | Elliston, Bessie 1870-? |
| Date
Created: | 1898 |
| Owner/Location: | Private
Collection |
| Frame Dimensions: | 25
x 22 |
| Image Dimensions: | 14
x 11.5 |
| Materials/Media: | oil
on canvas |
| Date Documented: | 1/13/2004 |
| Condition: | Excellent |
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| Description: | Bust-length
right profile of an older man with a silvery, short-cropped beard. He is
wearing a round hat, perhaps made of fur. A red-checked scarf is the
most colorful element in the composition. |
| History: | This
work was executed when the artist was 18 years old. |
| Notes: | Artist
married Clarence Edwards Sinclair and never painted after she married.
The subject was an early Nashville wagon vendor who sold fruit and
produce and eventually became a food wholesaler.
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