|
|
Portrait
#1412
 |
Subject/Title:
| Branham, John |
| Artist: | Unknown |
| Date
Created: | unknown |
| Owner/Location: | Private Collection |
| Frame Dimensions: | 33 1/2 x 28 1/2 |
| Image Dimensions: | 29 x 24 |
| Materials/Media: | Oil on canvas |
| Date Documented: | 14 May 2008 |
| Condition: | Very Good |
| Description: | Subject sitting facing viewer, his left arm resting on a table holding an orange covered book. He is wearing a black coat and cravat or bow tie and a white shirt. He has dark hair and brown eyes. |
| History of Work: |
|
| Notes: | Subject grew up in Lexington, Kentucky, learning the stone masons trade. He returned to Tennessee to hia mother and step-father, Bright Harris, on Station Camp Creek and worked in Nashville as a stone mason. He fell in love with and married Mary Ann (Polly) Parker, daughter of Nathaniel Parker on 11 May 1820. He built Branham's Mill and a cotton gin on Bledsoe Creek in Sumner County, Tennessee.
|
| | |
|
-verysmall.gif)
