Portrait #114

Additional Details

  • Subject/Title:Watson, Marietta Susan
  • Artist:Unknown
  • Date Created:ca. 1835
  • Owner/Location:Private Collection
  • Frame Dimensions:35 x 30
  • Image Dimensions:29.5 x 24. 5
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  • Materials/Media:Oil on canvas
  • Date Documented:7/17/2003
  • Condition:Good
  • Description:Waist-length three-quarter right profile of a young girls with light brown hair parted in the middle with long curls and a black headband. She is wearing a brown dress with full sleeves and a long-chained gold necklace. In her right hand, which has a ring on her fourth finger, she holds a pink rose.
  • History:Painted in Tennessee.
  • Notes:Sitter was born 1821 and died 1866. She married Jordan Reese Hezekiah Puryear. She is the owner's great-great-great-grandmother.