Description:Front view of a seated young woman wearing a dark red, full-length off-the-shoulder dress with a creme colored shawl draped over both forearms. She is seated in a large green upholstered chair. The background appears to be a partially obscured large column
History:The painting was restored about 1980. It reportedly was stored for over a hundred years in a closet in a home on Old Harding Road, Nashville.
Notes:The subject was from Williamson County, TN. She was the daughter of CSA Gen. Wilkins Whitfield. She married first Dr. McPhale and then a Mr. Nichol from Bellevue, TN.
