Portrait #289

Additional Details

  • Subject/Title:Dickinson, Anne McGavock
  • Artist:Cooper, Washington B.
  • Date Created:ca. 1840-45
  • Owner/Location:Private Collection
  • Frame Dimensions:44 x 36
  • Image Dimensions:34 x 27
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  • Materials/Media:Oil on canvas
  • Date Documented:12/8/2003
  • Condition:Good
  • Description:Nearly three-quarter length of a young woman with long auburn ringlets that reach her shoulders. Apparently standing, she is wearing a red dress trimmed with lace at the off-the-shoulder neckline and extensively at the short sleeves. Her eyes are blue and wide-set. Her right hand holds flowers and rests on a book whose surface is decorated. Her left hand is holding the book.
  • Notes:Subject born 1820 and died June 1868.