Portrait #428

Additional Details

  • Subject/Title:Childress, Elizabeth Whitswett
  • Artist:Cooper, Washington Bogart (attrib.)
  • Date Created:unknown
  • Owner/Location:James K. Polk Ancestral Home 301-305 W. Seventh St. Columbia, TN 38402 931-388-2354 www.jameskpolk.com/new/
  • Frame Dimensions:NA
  • Image Dimensions:36 x 29
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  • Materials/Media:oil on canvas
  • Date Documented:12/14/2004
  • Condition:Good
  • Description:Seated three-quarter length rectangular of an older woman wearing a dark, long-sleeved dress with an elaborate lace collar and lace bonnnet. Her brown hair is barely visible under the front of the bonnet. Her hands are in her lap and her right hand holds spectacles. A red drape is on the left and a landscape background is on the right.
  • History:Hung at Polk Place dinng room.