(American School, 19th Century)
Portrait of Rose Adele Cutts (1835-1899) as a young woman, not visibly signed, oil on canvas, mounted within a period frame with original eglomise matt, sight 24 x 19 in.; frame 32 x 26-1/2 x 1 in.
Provenance: Deaccessioned by the Virginia Museum of History & Culture to benefit collections care, preservation and future acquisitions
Note: Rose Adele Cutts was born into a prominent family in the Washington D.C. area. She was the great niece of Dolly Madison, and regarded as a beauty. At the age of 20 she became the poised wife of Senator Douglas of Illinois and their home became a center of the D.C. social scene. Douglas died in Chicago in 1861. Following the Civil War she married a Union officer from Virginia and had six children.
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Deaccessioned by the Virginia Museum of History & Culture to benefit collections care, preservation and future acquisitions
painting appears to be in original surface with some surface accretion, crackle throughout but stable and without any visible losses, eglomise matt with some minor separation of paint and glass
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