A three-quarter portrait of an older lady wearing a dark dress with a white collar and an over-jacket with short cape closed at the neck with a frog fastener. She holds a book in her lap and both of her hands are visible. Her hair is parted in the middle and curls frame her face. The back part of her hair is caught up in a white crocheted snood with a tie behind her left ear.
Artwork Details
Medium
Oil on Canvas
Collection
Private Collection
General Notes
Note Type
Historical Note
Note
Elizabeth Bradley was born in 1806 in Williamson County, to Thomas Bradley and Margaret Norton Bradley. She married John N. Trigg in 1821, and they had at least 8 children. She died in 1854 and is buried in Elmwood Cemetery in Memphis.
