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Portrait #266
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| Subject/Title: | Donelson,
Margaret Branch |
| Artist: | Unknown |
| Date
Created: | unknown |
| Owner/Location: | Private
Collection |
| Frame Dimensions: | NA |
| Image Dimensions: | 30
x 24 |
| Materials/Media: | oil
on canvas |
| Date Documented: | 1/10/2004 |
| Condition: | Fair |
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| Description: | Older
woman with dark brown hair parted in the middle with prominent
"sausage-roll' curls. Dressed in black with a cameo broach at the throat,
she sits in a red chair. Unframed, the work was obviously kept in an oval
frame at one time. |
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| Notes: | Subject (?-1871) was the wife of General Daniel Donelson. She was one of nine children of John Branch (1782-1863) and Elizabeth Foort. John Branch graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1801, studied law, was a judge in the Superior Count, a State Sentator, Governor of North Carolina in 1817, US Senator, then Secretary of the Navy under President Jackson.
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