Portrait #8

Additional Details

  • Subject/Title:L'Engle, Susan Fatio (Mrs. Jean L'Engle)
  • Artist:VanBryck, W.
  • Date Created:1884
  • Owner/Location:Private Collection
  • Frame Dimensions:43 x 36
  • Image Dimensions:29.5 x 24
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  • Materials/Media:Oil on canvas
  • Date Documented:4/26/2003
  • Condition:Good
  • Description:Waist-length three-quarter left of elderly woman in a black dress with a braided knot of hair with a comb. She has lace around the neck, and the coloring of the background, esp. at the bottom, suggests this work may have been framed in an oval at one time.
  • History:Surface cracking. Work was originally in an oval frame.
  • Notes:Subject is the great, great-grandmother of the owner. Subject had 12 children and lived in the Jacksonville-St. Augustine, FL area.