William Harrison Scarborough: A Tennessee Painter Capturing Southern Elegance William Harrison Scarborough (November 7, 1812 – August 16, 1871) stands as a significant figure in American portraiture of the mid-nineteenth century, particularly renowned for his meticulous renderings of aristocratic families and prominent individuals inhabiting Tennessee and South Carolina during the antebellum period. Born in Dover, Tennessee—the son of John Bosworth Scarborough and Sally Bosworth—his lineage traced back to Scarborough Yorkshire, England, where his family’s heraldry bore a white rose, symboliz…