Rev. Alexander Little Page Green

National Society of Colonial Dames of
America in Tennessee


		Portrait #906
Subject/Title:	Green, Rev. Alexander Little Page
Artist:	Cooper, Washington B.
Date Created:	ca. 1870
Owner/Location:	Private Collection
Frame Dimensions:	45 3/4" x 55 3/4"
Image Dimensions:	34 1/4" x 44 1/4"
Materials/Media:	Oil on canvas
Date Documented:	August 2007
Condition:	Excellent

Description:	Half-length portrait of an older man wearing a black suit and bow tie. The subject is standing with hand on a book, presumably a Bible since he was a Methodist minister.
History of Work:	The portrait is clearly signed by Cooper in the lower left. Restoration and cleaning by Cynthia Stow, Cumberland Art Conservation Center, 2001.
Notes:	Subject is owner's great-great grandfather, a Methodist minister in the Tennessee conference and a member of the first Board of Trust for what would become Vanderbilt University.