Rosanna Hunter Royle Dixon (Mrs. John Dixon, 1738-1790) and Mary Dixon (1767-1867)

Rosanna Hunter Royle Dixon was married to the printer John Dixon.

Dimensions: 36 x 28 1/16 in. (91.44 x 71.28 cm.)

The portrait represents a woman seated in a wooden chair angled to her right. She wears a blue-green wrap dress with white lining. There is a pink rose at her neckline and pearls in her hair. Her left hand holds a closed fan, her right arm is around her daughter’s shoulder. A little girl leans with her left elbow on her mother’s lap. She wears a white gown. The portrait is signed and dated.

See: Carolyn J. Weekley, Painters and Paintings in the Early American South (2013), 296.