Portrait #785

Additional Details

  • Subject/Title:Whitfield, Sarah
  • Artist:Cooper, Washington (attributed to)
  • Date Created:1856
  • Owner/Location:Private Collection
  • Frame Dimensions:64 X 54
  • Image Dimensions:49 X 38
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  • Materials/Media:Oil on canvas
  • Date Documented:12/16/2005
  • Condition:Excellent
  • Description:Front view of a seated young woman wearing a dark red, full-length off-the-shoulder dress with a creme colored shawl draped over both forearms. She is seated in a large green upholstered chair. The background appears to be a partially obscured large column
  • History:The painting was restored about 1980. It reportedly was stored for over a hundred years in a closet in a home on Old Harding Road, Nashville.
  • Notes:The subject was from Williamson County, TN. She was the daughter of CSA Gen. Wilkins Whitfield. She married first Dr. McPhale and then a Mr. Nichol from Bellevue, TN.