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File Name	shades_belm_0003.jpg
Creator	Cooper, William Browning (1811-1900)
Title	Adelicia Acklen with Horse Bocephalus
Date	1845
Genre	Paintings
Material/Technique	Oil on canvas
Description	Portrait of a dark-haired young woman in elaborate riding dress, standing with a large horse against a treed landscape.
Historical note	Adelicia Hayes Franklin Acklen was a widow and the mistress of Belmont Mansion at the time of the Battle of Nashville. At the time this portrait was painted, she was married to her first husband, Isaac Franklin. Upon his death, she became one of the wealthiest women in Tennessee and inherited plantation holdings in Louisiana as well as in and around Nashville. She married Joseph Acklen, a lawyer from Huntsville, in 1849, but was again widowed in 1863. During the Civil War, she remained in Nashville but also managed to successfully oversee valuable cotton interests in Louisiana. The night before the Battle of Nashville, as many as 3000 Union troops were encamped upon the grounds of Belmont Mansion.
Subject	Acklen, Adelicia, -- 1817-1887 -- Portraits; Women
Theme	Taking Care of Business
Story	Adelicia Acklen
Geographic Location	United States--Tennessee--Nashville
Time period	1840-1849
Language	eng
Contributing Institution	Belmont Mansion
Type	Still image
Format	image/jpg
Digital Publisher	Digital Initiatives, James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University
Reference URL	http://content.mtsu.edu/u?/shades,205
Archival file	shades3/shades_belm_0003.jpg