Portrait of Jane Seymour Beckwith



Object ID:
2003-54-2
Category:
Images of People
Medium:
oil on canvas
Date:
ca. 1845
Held at:
Litchfield Historical Society
Associated Place:
Litchfield, Ct
Size:
55" length x 45 3/4" width
Description:
Oil on canvas.Jame Beckwith is seated wearing a dark blue dress with a white lace collar. She holds an partially opened book in her left hand. She has brown hair, parted down the middle that hangs to her ears before being pulled behind her head. Her daughter Sarah stands to her right side. Jane has her hand on her daughter, Sarah Hunt Beckwith's, shoulder. Sarah wears a blue dress, almost identical in style to the one her mother wears. She has brown curly hair. There is a heavy red curtain behind them on the right side of the canvas.

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