Painter:

Unknown  Search this

Subject:

Dunbar, William, Mrs. (Mary Field)  Search this

Medium:

Oil on canvas

Type:

Paintings

Date:

Ca. 1855

Notes:

Speakes, Vera Jacobs, "Mississippi Portraiture," Laurel, MS: National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Mississippi and the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, 1987, pg. 96.

Summary:

Portrait of an elderly Mary Field Dunbar seated with body turned to the right, her gaze directed off to the right, her left arm resting on the arm of her chair, and her left hand resting under her chin. She wears a dark dress with a white lace collar and a white lace bonnet.

Topic:

Portrait female--Bust  Search this

Control number:

IAP 78020184

Data Source:

Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums

EDAN-URL:

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