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Portrait #785
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Subject/Title:
| Whitfield, Sarah |
| Artist: | Cooper, Washington (attributed to) |
| Date Created: | 1856 |
| Owner/Location: | Private Collection |
| Frame Dimensions: | 64 X 54 |
| Image Dimensions: | 49 X 38 |
| Materials/Media: | Oil on canvas |
| Date Documented: | 12/16/2005 |
| Condition: | Excellent |
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| Description: | Front view of a seated young woman wearing a dark red, full-length off-the-shoulder dress with a creme colored shawl draped over both forearms. She is seated in a large green upholstered chair. The background appears to be a partially obscured large column |
| History of Work: | The painting was restored about 1980. It reportedly was stored for over a hundred years in a closet in a home on Old Harding Road, Nashville. |
| Notes: | The subject was from Williamson County, TN. She was the daughter of CSA Gen. Wilkins Whitfield. She married first Dr. McPhale and then a Mr. Nichol from Bellevue, TN.
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