Adelia Boisseau Warfield and Daughter Huldah Belle, (painting).

Adelia Boisseau Warfield and Daughter Huldah Belle, (painting).

Newman, Robert Loftin, 1827-1912, painter.

Adelia Boisseau Warfield and Daughter Huldah Belle, (painting).

84 1/2 x 55 in.

Portrait of Mrs. William Wallace Warfield standon on a balcony, her body facing forward, her gaze directed toward the viewer, and her right hand resting on the shoulder of her young daughter Huldah standing in front of her. The mother wears a dark off-the-shoulder dress with short sleeves trimmed in lace, a long gold chain, a gold cuff bracelet, and a gold pin at the neck, and loosely darped over her left arm is a fringed shawl. The daugher wears a bright blue off-the-shoulder dress with white pantaloons, and a beaded necklace. She stands with her right arm reston on the arm of a chair beside her, and in he right hand she holds a sprig of blooming pink roses. In the background is a river landscape with puffy white clouds floating across a blue sky.

Architecture interior -- Detail -- Balcony

Portrait group -- Family -- Mother & Child

Portrait female -- Warfield, William Wallace, Mrs. (Adelia Boisseau) -- Full length

Portrait female -- Warfield, Huldah Belle -- Child

Cheek, Leslie, Jr.,

Formerly in the collection of Warfield, William Wallace,

Wood, Louis, Mrs. (Huldah Bell Warfield),

Cheek, Leslie, Jr. (Mabel Wood),

Kelly, James C., "Portrait Painting in Tennessee," Tennessee Historical Quarterly, pg. 236.

Landgren, Marchal E., "Robert Loftin Newman, 1827-1912," Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, National Collection of Fine Arts, 1974, no. 126.

Kelly, James C., "Portrait Painting in Tennessee," Tennessee Historical Quarterly, pg. 237.

"Robert Loftin Newman," Washington, DC: National Collection of Fine Arts, 1974, p. 163.

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