Object Record
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Metadata
Object Name |
Painting |
Date |
ca. 1830-1835 |
Title |
[Portrait of Alice (Cornell) Townsend] |
Description |
Oil painting on canvas. Bust portrait of Alice (Cornell) Townsend. She wears a red, white, and black dress with a frilled collar and a frilled bonnet. Not signed; artist unknown. Plain wooden frame (not original). (Keywords: New York) |
Acquisition |
Gift of Adele G. Forsythe |
Ownership and History |
Alice (Cornell) Townsend (1779-1851) was a maternal great-grandmother of photographer Alice Austen. This portrait, with a different frame, appears in several of Alice Austen's photographs of the parlor of Clear Comfort, the Austen family home in Rosebank, Staten Island. |
Earliest Date |
1830 |
Latest Date |
1835 |
Subjects |
Portrait paintings |
Lexicon Sub-category |
Art |
Associated People |
Austen, E. Alice Townsend, Alice (Cornell) |
Catalog Number |
P01.0110 |
Support Acknowledgment |
Online Collections Database record made possible by the Barker Welfare Foundation, January 2019. |
Legal Status |
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