Little Louise Thruston

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Creator	Dury, George (1817-1894)
Title	Little Louise Thruston
Alternate Title	Thruston, Louise, portrait
Date	circa 1874
Genre	Paintings
Material/Technique	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	45 x 40-3/8 in.
Description	Oval portrait of a young blonde girl holding a bunch of roses to her chest.
Historical note	This is apparently a mourning portrait of Louise Thruston, the daughter of Gates P. Thruston and Ida Hamilton, who died in 1874 at the age of four. She wears an off shoulder white garment and appears as if she is standing inside a cloud. Thruston, a former Union officer, married the daughter of a prominent Nashville family soon after the Civil War. He was a founding member of the Nashville Art Association, predecessor of the Nashville Museum of Art, whose collection now belongs to Cheekwood Museum of Art.
Subject	Thruston, Louise--Portraits; Girls
Subject (TGM)	Children Mourning clothing & dress
Theme	Building A Future Through Opportunity
Story	Gates P. Thruston
Geographic Location	United States--Tennessee--Nashville
Time period	1870-79
Language	eng
Contributing Institution	Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art
Credit line	Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art, Transfer from the Nashville Museum of Art; Gift of General G.P. Thurston, Nashville Art Association , 1960.2.19
Type	Still image
Format	image/jpg
Digital Publisher	Digital Initiatives, James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University
Archival file	shades3/shades_chee_0004.jpg

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