Description:Old lady in black dress with white lace collar, seated and knitting with a gutted candle to her right on a table. The armchair is upholstered in a floral pattern. She faces three-quarter right, but her head is turned so that she looks to the right of viewer over her left shoulder.
History:Artist was from Lynchburg, Virginia.
Notes:Subject was 100 years old when portrait was painted and died the next year. Lucie Vaughan was maternal grandmother of Lucie Carter and the great-grandmother of the current owner.
