Portrait #220

Additional Details

  • Subject/Title:Formosa, Angelo
  • Artist:Elliston, Bessie 1870-?
  • Date Created:1898
  • Owner/Location:Private Collection
  • Frame Dimensions:25 x 22
  • Image Dimensions:14 x 11.5
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  • Materials/Media:oil on canvas
  • Date Documented:1/13/2004
  • Condition:Excellent
  • Description:Bust-length right profile of an older man with a silvery, short-cropped beard. He is wearing a round hat, perhaps made of fur. A red-checked scarf is the most colorful element in the composition.
  • History:This work was executed when the artist was 18 years old.
  • Notes:Artist married Clarence Edwards Sinclair and never painted after she married. The subject was an early Nashville wagon vendor who sold fruit and produce and eventually became a food wholesaler.