Portrait-Hanger, Mary Elizabeth

Metadata

Title: Portrait-Hanger, Mary Elizabeth

Description: Oil painting of Mary Hanger. A check in the Hanger Family Papers indicates that Elizabeth Arnold Hanger paid Lucretia Spilman $400 for "painting a portrait." This may be Hanger's payment for her daughter, Elizabeth's, portrait. Spilman was a portrait painter from Fauquier Co., Virginia, who was active in the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Item was purchased for $1,500.

Format: oil on canvas

Type: image

Identifier: H0000299

Creator: Spilman, Lucretia

Coverage: Arlington, front left

Physical Dimensions: 39-1/2" x 45"