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More Smithsonian Searches     Who else has...     Unknown,     Portrait group -- Family     Portrait female -- Butler, Matthew Calbraith, Mrs. (Maria Simkins Pickens)     Portrait female -- Coles, John Stricker, Mrs. (Eliza Smith Pickens)     Portrait female -- Bacon, John E., Mrs. (Rebecca Calhoun Pickens)     Portrait female -- Whaley, E. Mitchell, Mrs. (Jennie Marion Pickens)     Painting

(Pickens Sisters), (painting). Artist:  Unknown, painter. Title:  (Pickens Sisters), (painting). Medium:  Oil on canvas. Dimensions:  29 x 36 in. Description:  Portrait group of four sisters, clockwise from left: Maria Simkins Pickens, Eliza Smith Pickens, Rebecca Calhoun Pickens, and the youngest, Jennie Marion Pickens, who holds her proper right hand to her neck. Subject:  Portrait group -- Family -- Siblings Portrait female -- Butler, Matthew Calbraith, Mrs. (Maria Simkins Pickens) -- Bust Portrait female -- Coles, John Stricker, Mrs. (Eliza Smith Pickens) -- Bust Portrait female -- Bacon, John E., Mrs. (Rebecca Calhoun Pickens) -- Bust Portrait female -- Whaley, E. Mitchell, Mrs. (Jennie Marion Pickens) -- Bust Object Type:  Painting Owner:  Gutow, Ellen Adams, Mrs., 13887 Clarksville Pike, Route 108, Highland, Maryland 20777 Remarks:  Maria Simkins Pickens (Oct. 28, 1833-Aug. 28, 1900) married Matthew Calbraith Butler on Feb. 25, 1858 at Edgewood, South Carolina. Eliza Smith Pickens (Oct. 28, 1833-Feb. 1, 1909), twin sister of Maria, married John Stricker Coles of Virginia on Apr. 21, 1853 at Edgewood, South Carolina. She died in Augusta, Georgia. Rebecca Calhoun Pickens (d. 1913) married John E. Bacon on Oct. 1, 1859 at the U.S. Embassy in St. Petersburg, Russia where her father was then Ambassador. Maria, Eliza, and Rebecca were the three daughters of Col. Francis Wilkinson Pickens, later Governor of South Carolina, and Margaret Simkins Pickens. Jennie Marion Pickens (1846-1865) was the daughter of Francis Wilkinson Pickens and his second wife, Marion Antoinette Dearing Pickens. She married E. Mitchell Whaley at Wdgewood Plantation. References:  National Society of Colonial Dames, South Carolina, 1991. "South Carolina Portraits: A Collection of Portraits of South Carolinians and Portraits in South Carolina," Columbia, SC: National Society of The Colonial Dames of America in the State of South Carolina, 1996, pg. 301. Illustration:  Image on file. "South Carolina Portraits: A Collection of Portraits of South Carolinians and Portraits in South Carolina," Columbia, SC: National Society of The Colonial Dames of America in the State of South Carolina, 1996, pg. 301. Note:  The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide. Repository:  Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 Control Number:  IAP 73440696   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 73440696 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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