Member of the Page Family, possibly Alice Page (b. 1695)

Date: ca. 1740

This portrait descended at Rosewell with other Page family portraits, but the subject attribution is uncertain. It was often identified as Alice Page. It is attributed to Charles Bridges.

Dimensions: 26 x 22 in. (66.04 x 55.88 cm.)

The subject wears a red gown with brown drape around her arms. There is dark drapery behind her and she appears to be standing in front of a window with her right arm on a ledge.

See: Graham Hood, Charles Bridges and William Dering: Two Virginia Painters, 1735-1750 (1978), 47-54; Colonial Williamsburg eMuseum

Family: Page
Decade: 1730s1740s
Credits: The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Gift of Mildred Nelson Page, 1942-43.