National Society of Colonial Dames of
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Tennessee State Library and Archives
Photographs of Portraits  

Record No:
Accession No:
29767
95-108.
Subject: John Christian Schetky (1778-1874).
Artist: Unknown
Date: Before 1860
Location: TN State Library and Archives
403 7th Ave. N.
Nashville, TN 37243-0312
Web Contact: Preservation - State Library

History:

P117a. Portrait not in book "Portraits in Tennessee Before 1866."

Notes: Son of Johann Georg Christoph Schekty, a composer and cellist of Hungarian descent. Appointed Marine painter to Kings George IV, William IV, & to Queen Victoria. Professor of drawing at Royal Naval College. Work exhibited at Pennsylvania Academy, 1821.

Material: Photographic print
Photographer:
Categories: Portrait paintings; Men; Artists; Teachers
   

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