Object Record
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Metadata
Object Name |
Painting |
Date |
ca. 1840-1850 |
Title |
[Portrait of Elizabeth Alice (Townsend) Austen] |
Description |
Oil painting on canvas. Bust portrait of Elizabeth Alice (Townsend) Austen. She wears a black dress with a white lace collar and a red bow. Painting is set in an oval linen mat within a plain frame wooden frame (mat and frame are not original to the painting). Painting is not signed; artist unknown. (Keywords: New York) |
Acquisition |
Gift of Adele G. Forsythe |
Ownership and History |
Elizabeth Alice (Townsend) Austen (ca. 1813-1887) was the maternal grandmother of photographer Alice Austen. |
Earliest Date |
1840 |
Latest Date |
1850 |
Subjects |
Portrait paintings |
Lexicon Sub-category |
Art |
Associated People |
Austen, E. Alice Austen, Elizabeth Alice (Townsend) |
Catalog Number |
P01.0113 |
Support Acknowledgment |
Online Collections Database record made possible by the Barker Welfare Foundation, January 2019. |
Legal Status |
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