The exact identity of this young girl has never been established, but the suggestion that she is a child of the Cottenet family seems valid in terms of her dates, the artist and the provenance. Although from a Charleston family, she spent most of her childhood in New York where Carlin might have painted her.
Notes:
This text is adapted from Martha Severens "The Miniature Portrait Collection of the Carolina Art Association" published by the Carolina Art Association, 1984
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