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Portrait #72
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| Subject/Title: | Graves,
William Jordan |
| Artist: | Unknown |
| Date
Created: | 1835-1841* |
| Owner/Location: | Private
Collection |
| Frame Dimensions: | 62
x 52 |
| Image Dimensions: | 50.25
x 40 |
| Materials/Media: | oil
on canvas |
| Date Documented: | 6/11/2003 |
| Condition: | Excellent |
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| Description: | Seated,
knee-length slightly right-turned profile of a man in a black formal attire,
holding a rolled sheaf of papers in his left hand. His right and arm hand rest
on a table beside the red chair in which he is sitting. A view of the U.S.
Capitol is visible outside the red swaged curtain draped window. |
| History: | Restored
by Cumberland Art Conservation in the 1980s. *Sitter was Kentucky Representative
to the U.S. Congress during these years, so it is assumed that this dates the
creation of the work. |
| Notes: | Sitter
killed Jonathan Cilley, U.S. Rep. from Maine, in a duel, which gave rise to
legislation making dueling illegal. See documentation in the file.
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