Portrait #408

Additional Details

  • Subject/Title:Polk, Sarah Childress
  • Artist:Earl, Ralph Eleasor Whiteside 1785-1838
  • Date Created:1829
  • Owner/Location:James K. Polk Ancestral Home 301-305 W. Seventh St. Columbia, TN 38402 931-388-2354 www.jameskpolk.com/new/
  • Frame Dimensions:NA
  • Image Dimensions:30 x 25
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  • Materials/Media:oil on canvas
  • Date Documented:12/14/2004
  • Condition:Excellent
  • Description:Waist-length right profile of a woman in a black v-neck dress with a white lace placket, fur-trimmed jacked, and hair swept up with dangling curls alongside her face. The background is brown.
  • History:Conserved by Cynthia Stow in 1982.