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    		• Shaver, William,
     
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    		• Portrait female -- Powel, Samuel, Mrs. (Mary Armstrong)
     
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    		• Landscape -- Tennessee
     
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    		• Architecture exterior -- Domestic
     
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    		• Painting
     
     
    Mrs. Samuel Powel (Mary Armstrong), (painting).
    Artist: 
    Shaver, William, painter.
    Title: 
    Mrs. Samuel Powel (Mary Armstrong), (painting).
    Dates: 
    ca. 1855.
    Medium: 
    Oil.
    Dimensions: 
    48 x 36 in.
    Description: 
    Portrait of Mary Armstong Powel seated with her body turned slightly to the right and her gaze directed toward the viewer. The background contains a landscape with a replica of her home at Surgoinsville, Tennessee, which was the first brick house built in Tennessee.
    Subject: 
    Portrait female -- Powel, Samuel, Mrs. (Mary Armstrong) -- Full length
    Landscape -- Tennessee
    Architecture exterior -- Domestic -- House
    Object Type: 
    Painting
    Owner: 
    Mary-Powel Thomas, New York, New York
    Provenance: 
    Formerly in the collection of Galbreath, William Duncan, Mrs., Memphis, Tennessee until 1991.
    Remarks: 
    Mary Armstrong was the wife of Samuel Powel, a lawyer and colonel of the first Tennessee Regiment of the Confederacy.
    References: 
    National Society of Colonial Dames, Tennessee, 1986.
    Galbreath, William Duncan, Mrs., 1986, 1989.
    Thomas, Mary-Powel, 2007.
    Illustration: 
    Image on file.
    Note: 
    The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
    Repository: 
    Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
    Control Number: 
    IAP 73640024
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