Eliza Jane Spratley
Attribution
Thomas F. Noon
(American, 1789 - 1882)
CultureAmerican
Dateca. 1829
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsOverall, Frame: 28 7/8 x 24 3/4 in. (73.3 x 62.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Trustees of Nimmo United Methodist Church
Object number2006.7.2
Not on view
DescriptionThis is an oil on canvas portrait of Eliza Jane Spratley at age eight. She is seated in a yellow Greek-taste fancy-painted tablet-back chair. She wears a white and blue-grey box plaid dress with puff sleeves, a gold earring, a necklace of red beads, and has a tortoise-shell comb in her hair.Frame: Both works were framed en suite in the mid-nineteenth century; the frames have leaves and a shell at their corners and have a pebbly texture, with a narrow lamb's tongue border along the inner edge of the frame.
Label TextAttributed to Thomas F. Noon American, ca. 1789–1882 Eliza Jane Spratley, ca. 1829 Oil on canvas With her printed dress, coral beads, gold earrings, and a tortoiseshell comb in her hair, young Eliza Spratley shows off her finest fashions. She likely sat for this portrait not long after creating the fancy cross-stitch sampler hanging to the far left. The large house depicted in this sampler’s landscape scenery may be a suggestion of the Spratley family’s plantation home, which was located at the current site of Norfolk’s Lafayette Park. Gift of the Trustees of Nimmo United Methodist Church 2006.7.2 ProvenanceEliza Jane Spratley [descended in her family to her great granddaughter] Elizabeth Spratley Nimmo Atwood; Willed to Nimmo United Methodist Church, Virginia Beach, Virginia, 2003; Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, Gift of the Trustees of Nimmo United Methodist Church, 2006. Exhibition History"The Norfolk Rooms," Willoughby-Baylor House, Norfolk, VA, opened August 16, 2014.
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