Miss Susannah Holmes (Bee)
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Description:
Framed oil on canvas portrait of Susannah Holmes (Mrs. Thomas Bee). The subject is seated before a plain background and dressed in blue with a white stomacher with lace-trimmed sleeves and bodice. Strands of pearls are draped over her midsection and are complemented by a corsage and central bow.
- Title: Miss Susannah Holmes (Bee)
- Creator: Theus, Jeremiah, 1716-1774
- Date: 1758
- Signature: Theus 1758
- Culture: American
- School: Realism
- Makers Mark: "Theus 1758" on obverse.
- Collection: Fine Art Collection
- Object Name: Portraits
- Other Name: Oil Painting
- Object Id: 1947.105.3
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