Portrait #767

Additional Details

  • Subject/Title:Harris, Martha Travis
  • Artist:Lowe, Elizabeth
  • Date Created:unknown
  • Owner/Location:Private Collection
  • Frame Dimensions:36 x 44
  • Image Dimensions:28 x 36
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  • Materials/Media:Oil on canvas
  • Date Documented: Date Documented:
  • Condition:Painting: Excellent Frame: Fair
  • Description:Seated three-quarter portrait of a woman in a pink dress cinched at the waist with a dark belt. The stand-up collar is trimmed in white as is the opening down to the waist and the ends of the cuffs. Her left arm is resting on a book placed on a table. She is wearing a brooch, two rings on her left hand, and her left earring is visible. Her dark hair is parted in the middle and gathered at the back of her head.
  • History:Martha Travis Harris was the wife of Tennessee Governor Isham G Harris and is a distant great-grandparent of the owner's family.
  • Notes:Portrait in excellent condition, frame in need of repair. The brooch she is wearing is a picture of her husband, Isham Harris.