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Portrait #97
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| Subject/Title: | Porter, "Little Martha"(?) |
| Artist: | Unknown |
| Date Created: | ca. 1870? |
| Owner/Location: | Private
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| Frame Dimensions: | 33 x 29 |
| Image Dimensions: | 23 x 19.5 |
| Materials/Media: | oil on canvas |
| Date Documented: | 7/2/2003 |
| Condition: | Excellent |
| Description: | Waist-length nearly frontal of a young girl in a brown dress with a white lace collar who is adorned with jewelry: earrings, a bracelet on her left arm, and a plain godl ring on each hand. Her light brown hair is parted in the middle and her left hand holds a small spray of flowers. |
| History: | Work was fire damaged ca. 1996 and was subsequently cleaned by Lyzon. |
| Notes: | Sitter may be Martha, daughter of Alexander James Porter and his first wife, which may account for the wedding-type rings on each hand (Porter remarried.) |
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