Portrait #97

Additional Details

  • Subject/Title:Porter, "Little Martha"(?)
  • Artist:Unknown
  • Date Created:ca. 1870?
  • Owner/Location:Private Collection
  • Frame Dimensions:33 x 29
  • Image Dimensions:23 x 19.5
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  • Materials/Media:oil on canvas
  • Date Documented:7/2/2003
  • Condition:Excellent
  • Description:Waist-length nearly frontal of a young girl in a brown dress with a white lace collar who is adorned with jewelry: earrings, a bracelet on her left arm, and a plain godl ring on each hand. Her light brown hair is parted in the middle and her left hand holds a small spray of flowers.
  • History:Work was fire damaged ca. 1996 and was subsequently cleaned by Lyzon.
  • Notes:Sitter may be Martha, daughter of Alexander James Porter and his first wife, which may account for the wedding-type rings on each hand (Porter remarried.)