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Portrait #75
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| Subject/Title: | Guthrie,
James |
| Artist: | Unknown |
| Date
Created: | ca.
1850 |
| Owner/Location: | Private
Collection |
| Frame Dimensions: | 43
x 36 |
| Image Dimensions: | 30
x 25 |
| Materials/Media: | oil
on canvas |
| Date Documented: | 6/11/2003 |
| Condition: | Excellent |
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| Description: | Oval
waist-length three-quarter right of balding man in a dark suit, plain starched
white shirt and black necktie. He has dark curls of hair for sideburns. He has
high pink coloring on his nose, chin, and (visible) right cheek. |
| History: | Restored
by Cumberland Art Conservation in the 1980s. |
| Notes: | See
documentation in the file. Sitter born 12/5/1792 and died 4/13/67. He was the
son of Gen. Adam Guthrie, portrait #74. Sitter was Sec. of U.S. Treasury in
Pierce administration; a U.S. Senator from Louisville, KY 1865-1869 (death);
President of the L&N Railroad and President of the University of
Louisville.
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