Portrait #372

Additional Details

  • Subject/Title:Unknown Young Lady W55
  • Artist:Scarborough, William Harrison
  • Date Created:ca. 1835
  • Owner/Location:Cheekwood Museum of Art Nashville, TN
  • Frame Dimensions:NA
  • Image Dimensions:2 7/8 x 2 1/4
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  • Materials/Media:watercolor on ivory
  • Condition:Excellent
  • Description:Full frontal bust-length of a young woman with ringlet curls. Her head is tilted slightly toward her right. Her dress is off-the-shoulder white lace and embellished by a small bouquet of camelias. A dark wrap is visible around her shoulders. Case has red velvet interior.
  • History:The artist was born at Dover, Tennessee and first studied painting in Nashville. He left Tennessee permanently about 1835 and had a long, successful career in up-country South Carolina. Probably painted in Nashville, Clarksville, or Dover Exhibited at Huntsville 1996; Gibbes 2000.