A Gentleman in black jacket and stock with cream waistcoat and collar and wearing a pin, with brown wavy hair; together with a Gentleman with black jacket, waistcoat and stock and white collar, with brown wavy hair and long sideburns, attributed to William Harrison Scarborough (1812-1871)

George Harrison Hite (circa 1810-1880) began his portrait miniature career in Illinois, but moved often in the 1830s in search of commissions. In 1832, he worked in Virginia; the next year he worked in both Ohio and Georgia; in 1835 and 1838, Hite worked in Charleston, South Carolina. By 1838, Hite established himself in New York City, where he also exhibited at the National Academy and the Apollo Association until 1857. Hite traveled briefly during this time to Kentucky and to Louisiana. (Johnson, p. 136.)

William Harrison Scarborough (1812-1871) trained in Nashville, Tennessee and Cincinnati, Ohio. By 1836, Scarborough moved to Charleston, South Carolina where he remained and married in 1838. Scarborough continued to work on an itinerant basis in search of painting commissions. In 1843, he settled in Columbia, South Carolina where he remained and received consistent painting commissions until the end of his life. (See Johnson, p. 201.)