One oil painting depicting a head and shoulders portrait of a middle age woman. She is wearing a black dress with a high white lace collar with a large oval gold brooch with rectangular turquoise stone clasped at the throat. Her dark hair is parted in the middle and pulled back severely, revealing gold dangling earrings. She has a sad expression on the face. The background of the painting is brown and the painting is displayed in a gilt wooden frame with intricate plaster design, there is also gilt on the frame surface.
Made/Created
Date made
1885
Notes
Support: canvas
Inscription/Signature/Marks
Transcription
"Mrs. Eliza Palmer Brown (1828-1876) // (Mrs W.W. Brown) // Married Bytown 1848. // Donated by Mrs. J.B. Owen, Carp, Ontario // (Great granddaughter)."
Notes
Written in a display label taped to back of the painting.
