Painting
- Title:
- Sarah Walker Fisk Tarleton
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 2020.013.02
- Place of Origin:
- Melbourne, Australia
- Date:
- circa 1855
- Description:
- Portrait of Sarah Walker Fisk Tarleton (1814-1882) of Concord, NH, and Mobile, AL, c. 1855. Oil on canvas. Three-quarter length portrait of seated woman with smooth black hair, wearing brown dress with leg-of-mutton sleeves; narrow black ribbon around her neck, ending in her sash. Gilded frame.
- Material:
- Textile
- Dimensions:
- H-36 W-28 inches
- Provenance:
- Sarah Walker Fisk (1814-1882) was the daughter of Francis N. and Mary Walker Emery Fisk of Concord, NH. She married Piermont, NH, native and merchant James M. Tarleton (1809-1880) on August 20, 1834. The Tarletons lived in Montgomery, Alabama, and later moved to Mobile, Alabama. President Franklin Pierce appointed James M. Tarleton U. S. Consul at Melbourne, Australia, in 1853, serving there through 1860. The Tarletons returned to live in Alabama and James M. Tarleton later served as U.S. Collector of Customs of the Port of Mobile.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Anne Shepard Bullis
- People:
- Fisk, Sarah W. (1814-1882)
- Subjects:
- Tarleton, Sarah Walker Fisk
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