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Portrait #581
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Subject/Title:
| McGavock, Elizabeth Crockett - Wife of Lysander McGavock - Portrait #582 |
| Artist: | Unknown |
| Date Created: | early 1800s |
| Owner/Location: | Private Collection |
| Frame Dimensions: | 12" X 10" Oval |
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| Materials/Media: | oil
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| Date Documented: | 3/20/2005 |
| Condition: | Fair |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders of lady wearing a black dress with white collar and blouse showing beneath. Her dark hair is parted in center and worn pulled back with roll at back of hand. |
| History of Work: | The subject moved to the Nashville area from Max Meadows, Virginia. Her husband buillt "Midway," the ante-bellum home used as centerpiece of present Brentwood Country Club. She is the mother of Cynthia and Emily McGavock, also in this portrait collection, great-grandparent of Margaret Hayes Powell and of Anne P. Lowe and Hortense P. Cooper, the widow of Governor Prentice Cooper. |
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