Portrait #102

Additional Details

  • Subject/Title:Wells, Lula
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  • Artist:Clendening, W. A.
  • Date Created:1877
  • Owner/Location:Private Collection
  • Frame Dimensions:30 x 25.5
  • Image Dimensions:26 x 21.5
  • Materials/Media:oil on paper
  • Date Documented:7/17/2003
  • Condition:Good
  • Description:Hip-length frontal of a young girl, age 4 or 5, in a white dress with a pink and blue sash. She is holding a small bouquet with two pink rose buds with her left hand. Her right hand seems to be in a pocket. A large dark-shaped object is on her right. Her straight dark hair is parted in the middle.
  • History:Posthumously painted in Hendersonville, Tennessee, as the subject died at age 4 or 5 from diptheria in Sumner County, Tennessee.
  • Notes:Subject was the daughter of Dr. & Mrs. H. I. Wells and is the owner's cousin.