Christina Hege
Woman has gray eyes and dark hair pulled back and secured at top with a large tortoise shell comb; a curl of hair is fastened just above each ear with a dark band which extends on each side toward the comb. Woman is wearing white empire waist dress with blue bows near the top of each sleeve; dress has white lace collar fastened at center with small brooch in the shape of a flower.
Reproduction frame made by Black Dog Gallery 03/2012.
RELATED OBJECTS: Acc. 4646.2 Portrait of Catharine Hege; Acc. 4646.1 Georg Hege’s Taufshein; 4646.4 Portrait of Adam Butner.
“Welfare was briefly apprenticed to a joiner. He later became a teacher in the Boys School and during his lifetime served the community in many ways: sick-nurse of the Single Brother, tavern keeper, member of the Aufsher Collegium, member of the Salem Light Infantry Company, delegate from the Salem Congregation to the Synod in Herrnhut in 1836.” (Bivins & Welshimer, p.96) Daniel Welfare was also the first portrait and landscape artist in Salem. He studied painting in Philadelphia under Thomas Sully. In 1825, he exhibited at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts.