Margaret Fay Brown

Painting

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Vermont Historical Society

Name/Title

Margaret Fay Brown

Entry/Object ID

1990.20.3

Description

Portrait showing a dark-haired woman in seated pose. She is wearing a dark gown with a low center-front split and a white blouse or shawl under the outer robe. Her hair is parted down the center and is held in ringlets at the nape of her neck.

Type of Painting

Easel

Artwork Details

Medium

Oil

Subject Person

Brown, Margaret Hyde Fay (1833-1922)

Acquisition

Accession

1990.20

Source or Donor

Campbell, Margaret Fay Shaw

Acquisition Method

Gift

Credit Line

Given in memory of Margaret Fay (Mrs. Samuel Brown)

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

Lawman, Jasper Holman

Attribution

Possibly

Date made

1855 - 1857

Place

City

Bennington

County

Bennington County

State/Province

Vermont

Country

United States of America

Continent

North America

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Painting

Nomenclature Class

Art

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Dimensions

Dimension Description

Overall

Height

30 in

Width

25 in

Interpretative Labels

Label

Margaret Fay Brown, c. 1857 Unknown Artist Bennington, VT Oil on canvas Gift of Margaret Fay Shaw Campbell, #A-598 Margaret Hyde Fay Brown (1833-1922) came from the prominent Fay family of Bennington. Her grandfather, Stephen Fay, owned what we now call the Catamount Tavern during the American Revolution.