Portrait #463

Additional Details

  • Subject/Title:Polk, Mary Brown
  • Artist:Avent, Mayna Treanor
  • Date Created:ca. 1920
  • Owner/Location:Private Collection
  • Frame Dimensions:38.5 x 33
  • Image Dimensions:29.5 x 24
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  • Materials/Media:Oil on canvas
  • Date Documented:10/14/2004
  • Condition:Good
  • Description:Oval of a woman with wavy light brown hair parted in the middle and worn shouldler length. She is wearing an off-the-shoulder light blue gossamer gown. A drape hangs over her right shoulder.
  • History:On the reverse is "After Cooper by Mayna T. Avent." A copy of a work by Cooper. Owner has another canvas of this subject as an older woman.
  • Notes:Subject lived from 1831-1910.