Portrait #1323

Additional Details

  • Subject/Title:McClung, Miss Tillie
  • Artist:Branson, Lloyd (1854-1925)
  • Date Created:unknown
  • Owner/Location:University of Tennessee McClung Museum
  • Frame Dimensions:16 x 18
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  • Materials/Media:Oil on canvas
  • Date Documented:15 May 2008
  • Condition:Excellent
  • Description:Oval bust-length of a young girl wearing a white dress or blouse with a gold pin at the neck with green leaf and pink rose. She is looking down and left and her short dark hair is held back by a blue ribbon tied at the top of her head.
  • History:Gift of John S. Van Gilder, 1956
  • Notes:Matilda Mills McClung (1859-1873) was a daughter of Eliza Ann Mills and Frank H. McClung; the McClungs were a prominent Knoxville family. Her sister Ellen McClung Green bequeathed the funds to buildthe Frank H. McClung Museum on the University of Tennessee, Knoxville campus, in memory of their father.