Painting, Oil: Lady Bate

Painting

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Bytown Museum / Musée Bytown

Name/Title

Painting, Oil: Lady Bate

Entry/Object ID

P248

Description

One oil painting depicting a head and shoulders portrait of Lady Bate, her dark hair is parted in the center. She is wearing a black dress with a high collar and sleeves that are high and puffed at the shoulders.The painting is displayed in a large gold painted wooden frame. Outer section of frame has gessoed design around outside. Middle section of frame is plain. Inner section forms oval border around painting. It is done in a gold stipple effect with a raised design in each corner.

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Transcription

Bottom of Canvas: "W.A. Sherwood 1898"

Notes

Label that was on back reads: "Lady Bate, Trennick House, Chapel Street, Ottawa"

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Painting

Nomenclature Class

Art

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

Painting, Painting, Furnishings

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

Painting (visual work), Oil, Painting

Dimensions

Height

71 cm

Width

61 cm

Depth

6 cm

Research Notes

Notes

Result: Examined Lady Catherine Bate, daughter of Allan and Margaret Cameron, was born at Montreal on September 3, 1833. She married Henry Newell Bate, first Chairman of the Ottawa Improvement Commission (later the National Capital Commission), in December of 1852. She died at Trennick House, Ottawa, on October 5, 1906 and is buried at Beechwood Cemetery.