Subject is wearing a dark gray dress with ruffled jacket. The neckline is draped with a white lace jabot centered with a male portrait miniature pin. Her left hand is resting on a book that sits on a marble surface.
Artwork Details
Medium
Oil on Canvas
Collection
Private Collection
Made/Created
Artist
William Brown Cooper (1811-1900)
Date made
1865 - 1875
General Notes
Note Type
Historical Note
Note
Subject was born September 22, 1818, the oldest daughter of Joseph Harvey McEwen of Iredell Co., NC, and Sophia Elizabeth Coleman of Columbia, TN. She married Liston Stones, a merchant from Pennsylvania March 25, 1839. Their home was in Nashville at the corner of Church St. & Vine (7th Ave). It was razed in 1996. Mrs. Stones died July 25, 1876 and was buried at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Nashville, TN.
