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.