Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Spring 2011
Department
Colby College. Art Dept.
Abstract
Following the Civil War, the wealthy plantation owner Adelicia Acklen redecorated her villa, Belmont, near Nashville, Tennessee, with white marble ideal sculptures by the American sculptors Randolph Rogers, Chauncey Ives, Joseph Mozier, and William Rinehart. During the war, Acklen had compromised her reputation as a genteel Southern lady by bargaining with Union officers in order to sell her cotton at exorbitant wartime rates. By purchasing and displaying a collection of statues that embodied the ideal of true womanhood, Acklen hoped to publicly redomesticate both her home and herself and to express her affinity for the ideology of the Lost Cause.
Recommended Citation
Lessing, Lauren K., "Angels in the Home: Adelicia Acklen's Sculpture Collection at Belmont Mansion" (2011). Faculty Scholarship. 67.
https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/faculty_scholarship/67
Comments
Originally published: Winterthur Portfolio vol. 45, no. 1 (Spring 2011), pp. 29-60.