Mrs. Samuel Powel (Mary Armstrong), (painting).

Mrs. Samuel Powel (Mary Armstrong), (painting).

Shaver, William, painter.

Mrs. Samuel Powel (Mary Armstrong), (painting).

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.

Portrait female -- Powel, Samuel, Mrs. (Mary Armstrong) -- Full length

Landscape -- Tennessee

Architecture exterior -- Domestic -- House

Mary-Powel Thomas, New York, New York

Formerly in the collection of Galbreath, William Duncan, Mrs., Memphis, Tennessee until 1991.

Mary Armstrong was the wife of Samuel Powel, a lawyer and colonel of the first Tennessee Regiment of the Confederacy.

National Society of Colonial Dames, Tennessee, 1986.

Galbreath, William Duncan, Mrs., 1986, 1989.

Thomas, Mary-Powel, 2007.

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