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The image shows the upper half of a seated woman facing forward. She has her hands clasped together in front of her. The woman appears calm with visible signs of age, including a few wrinkles on her face. She wears a white bonnet with a frilled edge tied under her chin, a dark shawl over a white high-collared blouse, and sits on a red chair with a gold trim. A red book and a handkerchief are on the surface next to her. The background transitions from deep red to brown tones.
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The image shows the upper half of a seated woman facing forward. She has her hands clasped together in front of her. The woman appears calm with visible signs of age, including a few wrinkles on her face. She wears a white bonnet with a frilled edge tied under her chin, a dark shawl over a white high-collared blouse, and sits on a red chair with a gold trim. A red book and a handkerchief are on the surface next to her. The background transitions from deep red to brown tones.

National Gallery of Art · Painting

Ann Old Coleman (Mrs. Robert Coleman)

Jacob Eichholtz

Date
c. 1820
Medium
oil on canvas transferred to wood
Dimensions
overall: 92 x 71.7 cm (36 1/4 x 28 1/4 in.) framed: 126.4 x 105.4 x 10.2 cm (49 3/4 x 41 1/2 x 4 in.)
Classification
Painting
Accession number
1947.9.1
Credit line
Gift of William C. Freeman
Time span
1801 to 1825
Department
CAB
Original NGA record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • painted surface
  • American
  • female
  • portrait
  • American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part I [A-L]
  • Coleman, Anne Caroline Old
  • Coleman, Mrs. Robert
Provenance

Thomas Bird Coleman [1794-1836], son of the sitter, Cornwall, Pennsylvania; his daughter, Margaret Coleman Freeman [1820-1894], Cornwall, Pennsylvania; her daughter, Margaret Freeman Buckingham [1857-1946], Washington, D.C.; her nephew, William C. Freeman, Cornwall, Pennsylvania; gift 1947 to NGA.

NGA object ID 33961. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.