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1825-1835
GUSN-2260
Rectangular format, full-length portrait of little girl, Francelia Lyndes of Cabot, Vermont, against shaded background; hair dark, eyes gray-blue; peach-colored dress, low neckline, puffed sleeves; red shoes; holds a yellow bird with red on wings on index finger of right hand, and a heart-shaped object in left hand. Unframed.
portraits
paintings (visual works)
oil paint (paint)
canvas
Picture
Portrait
Oil on Canvas
Portrait
1) In pencil on stretcher top: ""Francelia Lindes"" 2) In pencil on stretcher side: ""Property of Ella L. Adams to go to Emma A. Switzer at my decease.""
Lyndes, Francelia
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Possibly Brewster, John, Jr., 1766-1854 (Maker)
USA
29 x 21 3/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.269
Vermont (United States)
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