Mrs. Meriwether is facing the viewer. She wears a black dress with a large white lace neckpiece with a blue bow at the neck. Her dark brown hair with ringlets is covered with a white bonnet with ruffles and a large blue bow on the top of the head and a blue ribbon and bow below the chin.
Artwork Details
Medium
Watercolor
Collection
Private Collection
Made/Created
Artist
Fraser, John Arthur, 1838-1898
Date made
1871
General Notes
Note
Mariah Winston was born in Green County, Kentucky in 1840 to David Yancey Winston and Elizabeth Trabue. She married William Douglas Meriwether in 1861. She died in 1878. They had three children including noted newspaper columnist Dorothy Dix.
