Portrait #770

Additional Details

  • Subject/Title:Douglass, Elizabeth Howard
  • Artist:Unknown
  • Date Created:before 1825
  • Owner/Location:Private Collection
  • Frame Dimensions:32 x 22.75
  • Image Dimensions:26 x 16.75
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  • Materials/Media:Oil on canvas
  • Date Documented:10/26/2005
  • Condition:Good
  • Description:Stern-faced older woman facing three-quarter right. She is wearing an elaborate white lace bonnet tied in a bow under her chin. Her dark blue outfit appears to be almost a cape with a white fabric collar. Her blue eyes are directed at the viewer.
  • Notes:Wife of Edward Douglass, Jr., born in North Carolina. It was said that when she was a young woman, she danced with Lord Cornwallis.