Portrait #1774

Additional Details

  • Subject/Title:Cocke, Cecelia Harriett Morton Batey
  • Artist:Unknown
  • Date Created:ca. 1860
  • Owner/Location:Private Collection
  • Frame Dimensions:50 x 43
  • Image Dimensions:38 x 31
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  • Materials/Media:Oil on canvas
  • Date Documented:14 November 2008
  • Condition:Fair
  • Description:Seated three-quarter length portrait of a young woman wearing off-shoulder half-sleeve plumb colored dress. Subject sits in a green upholstered balloon back chair with scroll arms. Subject has dark hair pulled back. She wears a gold bracelet and gold jeweled wedding ring, gold crucifix necklace, and gold and jeweled dangle earrings. Right background has a curtain pulled back to reveal at left a window
  • Notes:Subject is owners great great grandmother. Subject lived in Rutherford County and was twice widowed during the Civil War.