Portrait #1251

Additional Details

  • Subject/Title:Dickens, Martha Francis Bush
  • Artist:Unknown
  • Date Created:ca. 1890s
  • Owner/Location:Private Collection
  • Frame Dimensions:None
  • Image Dimensions:19 1/2 x 13 1/2 Oval
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  • Materials/Media:Charcoal on board
  • Date Documented:12 April 2008
  • Condition:Poor
  • Description:Subject is seated with hands in her lap. She is wearing a white dress or blouse with stripes at the top and a bow at the neck. She is facing the viewer. She has dark hair possibly pulled to the back in a bun.
  • History:Itinerant artist
  • Notes:Subject was born 12 October 1838 in Smith County, TN. She married Dixon Dickens of Smith County, TN 1 March 1854. She died 27 November 1917. She had several children. She was buried in Dickens Cemetery near Tennessee Gas Transmission Station N. W. of Portland, TN (relocated).