Head and shoulders of lady wearing a black dress with white collar and blouse showing beneath. Her dark hair is parted in center and worn pulled back with roll at back of hand.
Artwork Details
Medium
Oil on Canvas
Made/Created
Date made
1820 - 1830
General Notes
Note Type
Historical Note
Note
Elizabeth Crockett was born in 1795 and moved to the Nashville area from Max Meadows, Virginia. Her husband, Lysander McGavock, built "Midway," the antebellum home used as centerpiece of present Brentwood Country Club. She is the mother of Cynthia and Emily McGavock, also in this portrait collection, great-grandparent of Margaret Hayes Powell and of Anne P. Lowe and Hortense P. Cooper, the widow of Governor Prentice Cooper. She died in 1863.
