Portrait #81

Additional Details

  • Subject/Title:Cheney, Sarah Anne Catherine Lawrence Morgan (Mrs. Charles John Cheney)
  • Artist:Baker, W. H.
  • Date Created:1846
  • Owner/Location:Private Collection
  • Frame Dimensions:46 x 42
  • Image Dimensions:28.x 25
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  • Materials/Media:oil on canvas
  • Date Documented:7/6/2003
  • Condition:Excellent
  • Description: Waist-length three-quarter right profile of a young woman set at an open window frame. Ivy adorns the left side and a red velvet curtain the right. She has pearls woven into her hair and some curls trail down her neck. She is wearing a white dress or blouse and holds a small mixed bouquet in her left hand, which crosses under her right. The overall effect is a romantic Elizabethan image.
  • History:Restored by Sandor Bodo in the early 1980s, who referred to this as a