Painter:

Healy, Thomas Cantwell 1820-1873  Search this

Subject:

Shaifer, Abram Keller, Mrs. (Elizabeth Hannah Humphries)  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. 235.

Summary:

Portrait of Mrs. Abram Keller Shaifer seated with her body turned slightly to the right, her gaze directed toward the viewer, and her arms resting in her lap, and her left hand holding a pair of spectacles. She wears a dark dress with full sleeves and a white lace collar, and on her head she wears a white cap.

Topic:

Portrait female--Waist length  Search this

Dress--Accessory--Eye wear  Search this

Control number:

IAP 78020459

Data Source:

Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_ari_388979