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National Society of Colonial
Dames of
America in Tennessee
Tennessee Portrait Project
Portrait #309 |
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| Subject/Title: | Ellison, James | |
| Artist: | Doyle, William M. S. 1769-1828 | |
| Date Created: | ca. 1816 | |
| Owner/Location: | Private Collection | |
| Frame Dimensions: | NA | |
| Image Dimensions: | 2 5/8" x 2 1/8 | |
| Materials/Media: | watercolor on ivory | |
| Date Documented: | 2/22/2004 | |
| Condition: | Excellent |
| Description: | Frame is rectangular black-painted wood with oval copper bezel. A period piece, but probably not original. Acorn-motif clasp at top. Man with brown wavy hair combed forward to a forked point over a receding forehead. He wears a gold stickpin (?) on his white shirt and has on a dark blue coat and white vest. |
| History: | On
the back is a paper upon which is written in ink "This / belongs to/
James H. Ellison, / Waltham, / Mass / Picture of his grandfather / James
Ellison of Boston Mass. / born in 1778 / died in 1820 / age 42 /
years"
Exhibited Huntsville 1996 - Gibbes 2000 |
| Notes: | More information on file at TSM |