National Society of Colonial Dames of
America in Tennessee
Portrait #80
Subject/Title: Overton, Saidee (Sarah Gladys Cheney Williams) - Mrs. Jesse Overton
1872-1963
Artist:Adolf Felix Muller-Ury
Date Created:unknown
Owner/Location:Private Collection
Frame Dimensions:32 x 27.5
Image Dimensions:23 x 19.5
Materials/Media:oil on canvas
Date Documented:7/6/2003
Condition:Excellent
Description:Oval, nearly frontal bust-length of a woman in white formal dress with a long string of pearls. She is turned very slightly to reveal a right profile. Her dark brown hair is amassed ontop of her head and adorned by a single deep pink rose. A lighter pink rose is in the foreground and the bottom edge of the image.
History:Restored by Sandor Bodo in the early 1980s.
Notes: This is a companion piece to her husband Jesse Maxwell Overton (#79). A portrait of the subject as a child is #1828.

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