Julia Davis, (painting).

Julia Davis, (painting).

Frye, William, 1819-1872, painter.

Julia Davis, (painting).

Portrait of a young Julia Davis standing in a landscape with her body facing forward, her gaze directed toward the viewer, her left arm resting on a garden wall, with her left hand holding a rose, and her right hand reaching toward a small bouquet of roses. She wears drop earrings and an off-the-shoulder dress trimmed in black lace. In the background there is a landscape, and to the right an urn rests atop a garden wall beside her.

Portrait female -- Davis, Julia -- Child

Portrait female -- Davis, Julia -- Waist length

Object -- Flower -- Rose

Callon, John, Mr. & Mrs., Natchez, Mississippi

Julia Davis was from Natchez, Mississippi.

Mrs. Bryding Adams, Birmingham Museum of Art, William Frye checklist, ca. 1995-2000.

Nelson, David, 2006.

Speakes, Vera Jacobs, "Mississippi Portraiture," Laurel, MS: National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Mississippi and the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, 1987, pg. 89.

Speakes, Vera Jacobs, "Mississippi Portraiture," Laurel, MS: National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Mississippi and the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, 1987, pg. 89.

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