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Portrait
#1276
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Subject/Title:
| Harris, Josiah |
| Artist: | Unknown |
| Date Created: | 1851-55 |
| Owner/Location: | Private Collection |
| Frame Dimensions: | 37 x 32 |
| Image Dimensions: | 25 x 21 Oval |
| Materials/Media: | Oil on paper board |
| Date Documented: |
26 April 2008 |
| Condition: | Good |
| Description: | Fomally attired and in his late forties, the subject has piercing blue eyes and aquiline nose presenting a stern countenance. |
| History of Work: | The painting is one of a pair (see Sallie Wiles King Harris). The portrait was passed down through Josiah Harris' descendants to the present owner. Subject is the great-great-paternal grandfather of this current owner. |
| Notes: | Subject was born 26 April 1809 and died 21 July 1863. He was a well-established merchant in Louisville, KY. He is buried in Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville. Mentioned in History of Kentucky by W. H. Perrin, p. 667.
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