Plantation Portrait

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Plantation Portrait (1885) was painted by William Aiken Walker, a well-known itinerant painter best known for his depictions of everyday life in the South. Oil on canvas (14" x 24").

Courtesy of Morris Museum of Art

Plantation Portrait

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