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Portrait
#1445
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Subject/Title:
| Mayes, Ellen McGuire |
| Artist: | Cooper, Washington B. (attrib.) |
| Date
Created: | ca. 1840 |
| Owner/Location: | Private Collection |
| Frame Dimensions: | 46 x 39 |
| Image Dimensions: | 40 x 32 |
| Materials/Media: | Oil on canvas |
| Date Documented: | 30 May 2008 |
| Condition: | Fair |
| Description: | Portrait of a young woman wearing black dress with white lace under-bodice, three-quarter length sleeves and red neck bow. Sitting in red backed chair with left arm resting on table. Rectangular ornate gilt-gesso frame with image in oval center. |
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| Notes: | Ellen McGuire Mayes (1817-1890) was the daughter of Patrick McGuire, a wealthy Columbia businessman. She married Roger Bradley Mayes in 1834 and the couple lived a home built for them by her father. The home, now known as the Mayes-Frierson Home still stands on West 6th Street in Columbia, Tennessee.
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