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Serema Adelaide Thompson, (painting)

Catalog Data

Painter:
Hoffman, George W. (attributed to)  Search this
Subject:
Thompson, Benjamin, Mrs. (Serema Adelaide)  Search this
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Type:
Paintings
Date:
Ca. 1850
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. 261.
Summary:
Portrait of Mrs. Benjamin Thompson with her body facing forward and her gaze directed off to the left. She wears a dark dress with a white lace collar and a cameo pin at the neck. Her dark hair is parted in the middle and swept back from her face.
Topic:
Portrait female--Bust  Search this
Control number:
IAP 78020512
Data Source:
Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_ari_389068