|
|
Portrait #758
 |
Subject/Title:
| Donelson, (Capt.) John III |
| Artist: | Earl, Ralph E. W. |
| Date Created: | unknown |
| Owner/Location: | Private Collection |
| Frame Dimensions: | NA |
| Image Dimensions: | 10 x 8 |
| Materials/Media: | photographic print on paper |
| Date Documented: | 12/6/2005 |
| Condition: | Good |
| | |
| Description: | Black and white copy of a man with white hair, waist-length frontal view. Hair is just below the ears and wavy at that point. His eyes are light-colored and his shirt white. A leaf-shaped object (?) is at the bottom center of the frame. |
| History of Work: | This photograph is the only record of an original by Earl. It is one of a number of paintings stolen from Cleveland Hall, Easter weekend 1986. The original was painted when the subject was 72, so the date of the work could be established. |
| Notes: | The subject was the son of Colonel John Donelson II, the captain of the boat Adventure that was a beginning of pioneer settlement in Nashville. Subject married Mary Purnell Donelson (see portrait #760.
|
| | |
|
-verysmall.gif)
