Member of the Page Family, possibly Martha Page (b. 1693)

Date: ca. 1740

This portrait descended at Rosewell with other Page family portraits, but the subject attribution is uncertain. She is often called Martha Page.

Dimensions: 26 1/2 x 22 1/4 in. (67.31 x 56.51 cm.)

The subject wears a yellow gown with a blue drape around her. Her right hand is at her breast. She is turned three-quarters to her right.

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, 1942-42.