From a press
release 8/13/98
"... The Worcester
Women's History Project has recently commissioned four internationally known artists to
paint the portraits of four important Worcester County women: Abby Kelley Foster, Dorothea
Dix, Clara Barton and Lucy Stone. These portraits will hang in Worcester's historic
Mechanics Hall. Local artist, Charlotte Wharton, will paint
the portrait of Abby Kelley Foster ..."
This important portrait of Abby
Kelley Foster, painted in the 19th Century style, now hangs in the Great Hall, Mechanics
Hall, Worcester, Massachusetts with thirty other portraits of significant historical
individuals.
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