National Society of Colonial Dames of
America in Tennessee
Portrait #372
Subject/Title: Unknown Young Lady W55
Artist:Scarborough, William Harrison
Date Created:ca. 1835
Owner/Location:Cheekwood Museum of Art
Nashville, TN
Frame Dimensions:NA
Image Dimensions:2 7/8 x 2 1/4
Materials/Media:watercolor on ivory
Date Documented:
Condition:Excellent
Description:Full frontal bust-length of a young woman with ringlet curls. Her head is tilted slightly toward her right. Her dress is off-the-shoulder white lace and embellished by a small bouquet of camelias. A dark wrap is visible around her shoulders.

Case has red velvet interior.
History:The artist was born at Dover, Tennessee and first studied painting in Nashville. He left Tennessee permanently about 1835 and had a long, successful career in up-country South Carolina.

Probably painted in Nashville, Clarksville, or Dover

Exhibited at Huntsville 1996; Gibbes 2000.
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