A hip-length seated portrait of the subject enveloped in a fur coat. The soft taupe fur collar and cuffs on a voluminous black fur or velvet coat compose a pyramid with the head as its apex. Background is entirely a somewhat mottled taupe. The head is slightly turned to the left and is atop a long and graceful neck, surrounded by the fur open to a white low bodice. One hand rests across the other which hold a small light purse. The face with highlighted forehead and long nose is slightly colored with rosy cheeks and mouth and surrounded by wavy brown hair parted at the high right side of forehead. The hair has dull gold highlights, and highlights on the fur add to the appearance of softness.
Artwork Details
Medium
Oil on Canvas
Collection
Private Collection
Made/Created
Artist
Niles, Rosamund Agnes, 1881-1958
Date made
1916 - 1925
General Notes
Note Type
Historical Note
Note
The subject was born April 2, 1893, in North Carolina, youngest daughter of the Rev. John Nelson Cole and his wife Elizabeth Marshall Jones Cole. She and her mother, then a widow, moved to Richmond, VA, probably before 1920. She married in 1933 and died in Richmond in 1938, never having had children.
