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Portrait #24
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| Subject/Title: | Gordon,
Mary Elizabeth Watkins (Mrs. Bolling Gordon) |
| Artist: | Unknown |
| Date
Created: | 1842 |
| Owner/Location: | Private
Collection |
| Frame Dimensions: | 40
x 35 |
| Image Dimensions: | 29.5
x 24.5 |
| Materials/Media: | oil
on canvas |
| Date Documented: | 5/15/2003 |
| Condition: | Excellent |
| Description: | Seated
view of young woman seated on a red chair (barely visible) wearing a dark
green dress with a lace pinafore. She is turned slightly to her right. |
| History: | Painting
was in a tornado in 1974. Owner has pictures showing destruction. Restored
within 6 mos. by Sandor Bodo. Assumed to be same artist as painted her husband
Bolling Gordon that same year (1842). On the canvas back is noted "Maker
F. Hegan Louisville" but this appears to be the canvas maker not the
artist who painted the work. |
| Notes: | Subject
is owner's great-great-grandmother.
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