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National Society of Colonial
Dames of
America in Tennessee
Portrait #1288 |
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| Subject/Title: | Grundy, Felix | |
| Artist: | Unknown | |
| Date Created: | unknown | |
| Owner/Location: | Private Collection | |
| Frame Dimensions: | 7 x 5 1/2 | |
| Image Dimensions: | 2 x 1 5/8 | |
| Materials/Media: | Oil on ivory | |
| Date Documented: | 21 April 2008 | |
| Condition: | Excellent |
| Description: | Subject is facing slightly to viewer's right and looking a viewer. He wears a black coat, cream-colored vest with white shirt and scarf tied in bow. He has greying hair, receding on sides, and piercing blue eyes. |
| History of Work: | This came to current owner through grandfather's family, Richard King Gibson, Jr. It hung in the dining room of Elizabeth Varnell Gibson Madden. |
| Notes: | Born 1777 and died 1840 in Nashville. He was a Congressman, a U. S. Senator and a Democratic leader. Born in Virginia; lawyer at age 20. |