Painting
- Title:
- Frances Mehitable Stevens Adams
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 1972.017.03
- Date:
- circa 1860
- Description:
- Portrait of Frances Mehitable Stevens Adams (1826-1906), unknown artist, c. 1860. Oil on canvas. Three-quarter length portrait of a woman seated; facing slightly left; eyes toward viewer. Sitter has center-parted brown hair; blue eyes. She is wearing a brown and tan striped dress with white lace collar, brown belt, oval brooch, and thin black shawl. Her hands are folded on her lap; sitter's right arm resting on a table with red cloth. She is sitting in a Rococo Revival chair with embroidered back; large case piece to right. Graduated brown background. Gilded gesso over wood frame, large c-scroll and Fleur-de-lis corners, open-work on exterior edge; gilded spandrels with foliate scroll designs.
- Material:
- Textile
Canvas - Dimensions:
- H-24 W-20 inches
- Provenance:
- Frances Mehitable Stevens Adams is the grandmother of donor, Frances Gurley Adams.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Frances Gurley Adams Millar
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