Portrait #206 & #162

Additional Details

  • Subject/Title:Wells, Carrie and Charles
  • Artist:Unknown
  • Date Created:ca. 1830
  • Owner/Location:Private Collection
  • Frame Dimensions:45 x 56 (horiz.)
  • Image Dimensions:25.5. x 36.5
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  • Materials/Media:Oil on canvas
  • Date Documented:11/13/2004
  • Condition:Good
  • Description:Knee-length seated of a young girl and boy who resemble each other physically: blond straight hair and moon-shaped open faces. Between them is a dog. The children are dressed formally: white dress with puff sleeves trimmed with red and blue ribbon and black jacket, white vest and white shirt respectively. The girl has a basket of flowers in her left hand and the boy's left hand gestures to his ear. Both children's right hands are extended toward the dog.
  • History:Has been cleaned. Was painted in Charleston, SC.
  • Notes:Subjects may have lived in Charleston, but certainly somewhere along the SC coast.