Teresa Leigh Read (1839-1854), (painting).

Teresa Leigh Read (1839-1854), (painting).

Comparet, Jean, painter.

Teresa Leigh Read (1839-1854), (painting).

Oval: 30 x 24 in.

A young lady dressed in blue, with a red shawl. She is seated on a red sofa. A glass vase filled with red and white flowers is on a table to her right.

Portrait female -- Read, Teresa Leigh -- Waist length

May, Carolyn Brinson, 219 North Jackson Street, Quincy, Florida 32351

Formerly in the collection of Palmer, Teresa Bailey, until ca. 1970s.

Teresa Leigh Read was born April 2, 1839 and died May 31, 1854 at age fifteen. She was the daughter of General Leigh Read and Eliza Branch Read, daughter of Governor John Branch, Florida's last territorial governor. The artist spent the winter at Pine Hill Plantation (in Leon County, Florida) painting portraits of the family of Governor Branch, the Reads, the Hopkins, and the Bradfords.

National Society of Colonial Dames, Florida, 1999.

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