Additional Details

  • Record No:71.23
  • Subject/Title:Sevier, Catherine Sherill
  • Artist:Belzons, Jean
  • Date Created:Between 1799-1810.
  • Owner/Location:TN State Museum 505 Deadrick Street. Nashville, TN 37243 Web Contact: TN State Museum
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  • Image Dimensions:4.62 X 4.50
  • Materials/Media:Watercolor on Porcelain.
  • History:This miniature portrait is an upper torso view done in watercolor on a piece of white porcelain. The porcelain piece is covered with glass and set into an ornate frame covered n brown velvet and has raised floral and leaf-patterned mahogany wood decorations and it has an oval opening for the miniature. Portrait handed down through the Sevier family and was acquired by the TN Historical Society after 1939.
  • Notes:Catherine Sherrill Sevier, also known as "Bonnie Kate" was the second wife of Governor John Sevier.
  • Categories:Portrait paintings; Governors; Women.