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Susan Alice Ensign

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Artist

E. C. Bannister

Date

1896

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

27 1/16 x 22 1/16 in. (68.8 x 56 cm)

Description

Female portrait, half length; young subject facing viewer, wearing formal dress with large furred jacket

Inscription

lower right: “E. C. Bannister / 1896.”

Credit Line

Gift of Susan Morse Hilles, daughter of the subject, 1981

Object Number

UR170