Portrait #1277

Additional Details

  • Subject/Title:Harris, Sallie Wiles King
  • Artist:Unknown
  • Date Created:1851-55
  • Owner/Location:Private Collection
  • Frame Dimensions:37 x 32
  • Image Dimensions:25 x 21 Oval
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  • Materials/Media:Oil on paper board
  • Date Documented:26 April 2008
  • Condition:Good
  • Description:The brown-eyed native of Burkesville, KY is portrayed with raven hair scalloped at her cheek and skimming the delicate lace collar affixed with a cerulean velvet bow.
  • History:The painting is one of a pair (see Josiah Harris). The portrait was passed down through Josiah Harris' descendants to the present owner; the subject was the owner's great-great paternal grandmother.
  • Notes:Subject was born 20 November 1819 and died 27 January 1876. She is buried in Greenlawn Cemetery, Franklin, KY. Mentioned in History of Kentucky by W. H. Perrin, p. 667.