Portrait #401

Additional Details

  • Subject/Title:Gill, Rebecca Boyleston
  • Artist:Verstille, William
  • Date Created:ca. 1790
  • Owner/Location:Cheekwood Museum of Art Nashville, TN
  • Frame Dimensions:NA
  • Image Dimensions:NA
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  • Materials/Media:watercolor on ivory
  • Condition:Excellent
  • Description:Oval bust-length slightly right profile of a young woman with large wideset brown eyes and brown curly hair piled on her head. A diamond (?) hair ornament designed of four linking circle is visible front and center. Her dress is black with a ruffled lace trim against a plain white yoke inset collar.
  • History:Exhbited at Gibbes 2000.
  • Notes:Subject was the second wife of Moses Gill, governor of Massachusetts (see # 400). Her father was Thomas Boyleston.