Description:Frame is Gilded chased copper, original. Oval image of a woman with an elongated face accentuated by the draping brown curls that frame her face. She is wearing a dark blue dress and a rectangular locket.
History:Painted in Poughkeepsie, New York. The full inscription on the back reads "Painted by Edward S. Dodge, Pokeepsie, N. Y. Aug 1841. Mrs M. Vassar Jr." Exhibited Huntsville 1996; Gibbes 2000. Illus. Huntsville Catatog; Tennessee Historical Quarterly, Spring, 2000
Notes:The subject's husband was the nephew of the Matthew Vassar who gave the money to found Vassar College. Matthew Vassar Sr had no children of his own.
