Portrait #1560

Additional Details

  • Subject/Title:Link, Lillie A.
  • Artist:Unknown
  • Date Created:1895
  • Owner/Location:Private Collection
  • Frame Dimensions:None
  • Image Dimensions:20 x 16
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  • Materials/Media:Charcoal & pastels on paper on cloth
  • Date Documented:28 July 2008
  • Condition:Poor
  • Description:Subject is facing viewer and looking slightly to viewer's left. Her dress is black, buttoned in the front with a high collar. Her hair is short and dark brown.
  • History:Painted when subject was 18 years old. Painter unknown. Could have been the work of her sister Laura, a student at the time at Howard College. The painting has been "handed down" in the family.
  • Notes:Lillie A. Link, daughter of Frank L. and Louisa A. Garrison Link. Subject is grandmother of Walter T. Durham--State Historian of Tennessee.