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Portrait #756
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Subject/Title:
| Donelson, Stockley II |
| Artist: | Calvert |
| Date Created: | 1959 |
| Owner/Location: | Private Collection |
| Frame Dimensions: | NA |
| Image Dimensions: | 10 x 8 |
| Materials/Media: | oil on paper |
| Date Documented: | 12/6/2005 |
| Condition: | Good |
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| Description: | Three-quarter left profile of a blue-eyed man with fine dark aurburn hair that forms two small wispy curls near his forehead hairline. Dressed in a creme ruffled shirt, his top coat has 4 and one-half buttons showing. |
| History of Work: | The original of this portrait, painted by Ralph E. W. Earl, is one of a number stolen from Cleveland Hall, Easter weekend, 1986. This version was painted by Calvert (same family as below) from a print made from a 1907 negative shot by another Calvert (Nashville photographer). |
| Notes: | Subject lived from 1805-1888. He was the son of Capt. John Donelson III and Mary Purnell. He married Phyla Ann Lawrence (see companion portrait # 757).
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