Portrait #201

Additional Details

  • Subject/Title:McIlvain, Sarah Beatty
  • Artist:Unknown
  • Date Created:1895
  • Owner/Location:Private Collection
  • Frame Dimensions:3.75 x 2.75
  • Image Dimensions:2.5 x 2
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  • Materials/Media:watercolor on ivory
  • Date Documented:3/1/2004
  • Condition:Fair
  • Description:Frontal of an older woman with white hair and brown eyes. The dominant clothing is a black lace veil worn away from the face and gathered at the neck with a silver broach in the design of a six-petaled flower.
  • History:Work was most likely created in Paris, France while her husband was the American ambassador to France. From the home of Frances Montgomery, owner's grandmother.