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Nancy (Miller) Long (1822-1894), (painting). Artist:  Gasche, Charles, painter. Title:  Nancy (Miller) Long (1822-1894), (painting). Other Titles:  Mrs. John Long (1822-1894), (painting). Digital Reference:  Medium:  Oil. Dimensions:  29 3/4 x 24 3/4 in. Description:  Portrait of Mrs. John Long seated at a spinning wheel in a pioneer room with a window and a fireplace in the background. Subject:  Portrait female -- Long, John, Mrs. (Nancy Miller) -- Full length Architecture interior -- Domestic -- House Architecture interior -- Detail -- Window Architecture interior -- Detail -- Fireplace Object -- Other -- Spinning Wheel Occupation -- Domestic -- Sewing Object Type:  Painting Owner:  Wayne County Historical Society of Ohio, 546 East Bowman St., Wooster, Ohio 44691 Accession Number: 1900.0893.001 Provenance:  Gift of Smith, Wallace ca. 1950s. Gift of Dingman, E. Smith, Mrs., ca. 1950s. Remarks:  Mrs. Nancy (Miller) Long Jr. (1822-1894), a native of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, was the daughter of Benjamin Miller, a pioneer settler of Chester Township, and sister to Capt. B. F. Miller. She married John Long Jr. in 1853. Their union produced six children: George K., Hezekiah H., Eliza, Martha, Mary Etta, and Lewis. Nancy Long and her husband were members of the United Presbyterian Church. She died on Christmas Eve 1894 at the age of 71 after a brief congestion of the lungs illness. This portrait is done in a Colonial Revival style. References:  Wayne County Historical Society, 1980, 2018. 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 42760060   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 42760060 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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