History:The condition of this portrait is considered good. It was conserved in 1984. The portrait is of a young woman in a strapless black dress. Her hair is pulled back in the style of the period. There is some overpainting on the portrait.
Notes:Adelicia Hayes was born in Nashville, March 15, 1817 to Oliver Bliss Hayes and Sarah Clements Hightower. She attended the Nashville Female Academy and at 17 was engaged to Alphonso Gibbs, a Harvard graduate who died before the wedding. This portrait is said to have been painted at the time of this engagement. She survived two husbands, married a third time and died in 1887. Her home was Belmont Mansion and it is open to the public in Nashville, TN.
