Portrait #411

Additional Details

  • Subject/Title:Fall, Sarah Polk Jetton 1847-1924
  • Artist:Avent, Mayna Treanor
  • Date Created:ca. 1910s
  • 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:39 x 34
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  • Materials/Media:oil on canvas
  • Date Documented:12/14/2004
  • Condition:Good
  • Description:Waist-length left profile of an older, heavy-set woman who has curled gray hair fashioned in a bun. She wears a gray ball gown with a scoop neck, black boa, pearl tiara, and choker. A bouquet of purple flowers is in her right hand.
  • History:Signed and dated. Mayna Treanor Avent's husband, James Monroe Avent, was a great nephew of Sarah Polk. This was painted from a photograph.
  • Notes:Subject lived from 1847-1924.