Portrait #2001

Additional Details

  • Subject/Title:Baker, Eva Snowden [1856-1939]
  • Artist:Ligon, Gladys Wear [1892-1987]
  • Date Created:ca. 1940
  • Owner/Location:Belmont Mansion 1900 Belmont Boulevard Nashville, TN 37212 615-460-5459
  • Frame Dimensions:25" x 10"
  • Image Dimensions:20" x 15"
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  • Materials/Media:Pastel on paper
  • Date Documented:3 March 2008
  • Condition:Excellent
  • Description:Bust length portrait of an older African-American woman facing slightly right and looking to the left. She is wearing a green patterned turban and a blue and brown striped dress with a deep white shawl or collar at the neckline.
  • History:Portrait may have been done from a photograph. This portrait was commissioned by Ellen Wemyss to hang at Fairvue.
  • Notes:Eva Baker worked for Adelicia. The Baker and Snowden families were slaves of Isaac Franklin and Adelicia Acklen.