Portrait #245

Additional Details

  • Subject/Title:Armstrong, Mary Elizabeth Napoleon
  • Artist:Unknown
  • Date Created:ca. 1873
  • Owner/Location:Private Collection
  • Frame Dimensions:38 x 33
  • Image Dimensions:29 x 24
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  • Materials/Media:oil on canvas
  • Date Documented:12/30/2003
  • Condition:Excellent
  • Description:Young woman, age approx. 16, with waist-length brown hair and light eyes seated with left arm resting on a table (?) surface and right arm crossed over the left. She is wearing a white formal dress, a bracelet on her right arm and a ring on her left forefinger. A glowing dark blue patch of background in the upper right gives way to the majority dark background treatment.
  • History:Restored in 1997. If the subject was as old as 22 this could be a posthumous work.
  • Notes:Subject was the older sister of #246, James Hamilton Armstrong.