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Portrait #14
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| Subject/Title: | Harwell, Evalina Weakley Douglass |
| Artist: |
Kellogg, Martin |
| Date
Created: | 1936 |
| Owner/Location: | Private
Collection |
| Frame Dimensions: | 43 x 37 |
| Image Dimensions: | 34 x 29.5 |
| Materials/Media: | oil on canvas |
| Date Documented: | 5/7/2003 |
| Condition: | Excellent |
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| Description: | Seated three-quarter left profile of a mature woman wearing glasses and a dark blue velvet dress with jeweled catches on each shoulder and 2 long strands of pearls. Her hands are in her lap. The right background is an Oriental screen depicting a tree. |
| History: | Artist lived at 4409 Harding Place and painted this portrait as a return favor for the room and board provided by the sitter's family.
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| Notes: | Subject lived from 1874-1938. She married James Mitchell Douglass, a Sumner County judge and farmer at Cage's Bend. She had 2 children, the owner's mother and a son who became a doctor. After James Mitchell Douglass died, the subject married Samuel Knox Harwell of Davidson County.
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