Object Record
Images
Metadata
Catalog Number |
BE979.6.19 |
Object Name |
Painting |
Title |
Lucy Harris |
Description |
An oil painting portrait of Lucy Harris. She is standing face forward-oriented towards the proper right. She is wearing a black formal dress with elaborate floral lace cuffs at the elbow. The same lace lines the scoop neckline. She is wearing a necklace of multiple strands of large and small pearls with a pearl cross hanging under the bust. The necklace is visible at her throat and the scoop of her lace neckline. On her left wrist, she wears a matching pearl bracelet with multiple strands of small pearls and three strands of small pearls. Her hands are clasped at her waist and she holds a black fan in her left hand. There is a yellow kerchief in the sleeve of her right arm. She wears a black hat with a full brim which has white curly feathers on its top flowing down the back. The background is a mottled brown. The painting is signed in the bottom proper right corner "Fanny Sutherland 1885". The wood and plaster gilded frame is wide with a deep slope. The middle border has an elaborate scroll, leaf and floral pattern. There is an outer fillet decorated with a scallop pattern and an inner fillet with a dot pattern. |
Year Range from |
1885 |
Artist |
Sutherland, Fanny |
Dimensions |
H-13 W-96 L-149 cm |
History |
This portrait was painted in 1885 by Fanny Sutherland (1833-ca.1906). Frances (Fanny) Sutherland R.A., R.C.A., was Captain Edward Sutherland's (1796-1885) fourth daughter and was the sister of Christiana Sutherland Magrath (1831-1860), Mary Harris' mother. Captain Sutherland married Christiana Coffin in 1826 and they had seven children. After the death of his wife in 1852, Captain Sutherland settled in Clarkson with the family in 1856. He purchased `Bush's Inn', a former inn and coach house, and renamed it `Woodburn'. It was here that Edward became the first to introduce both strawberry and raspberry cultivation in the area. Edward was an accomplished artist and became a member of the Ontario Society of Artists (1872-75) and exhibited with this society in 1873. Fanny Sutherland moved to England during the 1880s to pursue formal art training. She was a member of the Royal Academy in London, England, beginning in 1882; and became a member of the Royal Canadian Academy from 1885-1889. In 1901, her great-niece Annie Harris (1882-1986) from Benares visited her in England. Fanny died around 1906. Lucy Harris was the seventh child of James and Elizabeth Harris of Benares. Born in the Benares Estate in Clarkson she never married and would later leave the home after her parents passed away. Lucy lived in Toronto with her older sister Bessie. |
People |
Harris, Lucy Sutherland, Fanny |