Portrait #1446

Additional Details

  • Subject/Title:Bosley, Gertrude
  • Artist:Unknown
  • Date Created:ca. 1860
  • Owner/Location:Private Collection
  • Frame Dimensions:42 x 31
  • Image Dimensions:34 x 29
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  • Materials/Media:Oil on canvas
  • Date Documented:30 May 2008
  • Condition:Fair
  • Description:Portrait of a young woman in a short sleeve white dress with a white, black, and red ermine wrap. Her left arm holds the wrap at her shoulder, her right arm crosses her mid-section. At her right elbow are a white rose and a red rose (symbolic of eternal love). Portrait is in a rectangular gilt-gesso frame with oval interior.
  • Notes:Gertrude Bosley (1843-1863) married Powhatan Bowling in 1862 and died in childbirth in 1863.