Portrait #221

Additional Details

  • Subject/Title:Formosa, Angelo's daughter (?)
  • Artist:Elliston, Bessie 1870-?
  • Date Created:ca. 1900
  • Owner/Location:Private Collection
  • Frame Dimensions:24 x 23
  • Image Dimensions:13 x 11.5
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  • Materials/Media:Oil on canvas
  • Date Documented:1/13/2004
  • Condition:Excellent
  • Description:Three-quarters left profile of a young woman with olive-darkly tanned skin/mulatto and large brown eyes wearing a gold earring and dressed in a multi-colored drape (?) with a simple neckline. Her hair is light brown and curly.
  • Notes:Artist married Clarence Edwards Sinclair and never painted after she married. The subject is presumed to be the daughter of Angelo Formosa.