Martha Hillman, Mrs Alvah Miller
Nicholas Biddle Kittel (Columbia, New York 1822 - New York 1894)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1862
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
920 x 760 mm
Place of origin
New York
Order this imageCollection
Greenway, Devon
NT 120695
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Martha Hillman, Mrs Alvah Miller by Nicholas Biddle Kittel (Columbia, NY 1822 - New York 1894), 1862. A half-length portrait of Agatha Christie's paternal great-grandmother, as a severe looking woman, seated with her hands on her lap, wearing dark clothes with loose white sash round neck and with black hair.
Provenance
Given by Mrs Rosalind Hicks, Anthony Hicks and Mathew Prichard, 2006
Credit line
Greenway, The Prichard/Hicks Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Nicholas Biddle Kittel (Columbia, New York 1822 - New York 1894), artist