R. B. C. Howell

National Society of Colonial Dames of
America in Tennessee

First Baptist Church - Nashville, Tennessee

Subject/Title:	Howell, Robert Boyte Crawford (R.B.C.)	Portrait #269
Artist:	Cooper, Washington
Date Created:	unknown
Owner/Location:	First Baptist Church 108 7th Ave S. Nashville, TN 37203 (615) 664-6000 www.firstbaptistnashville.org
Frame Dimensions:	61 x 52
Image Dimensions:	49 x 39
Materials/Media:	oil on canvas
Date Documented:	1/10/2004
Condition:	Excellent

Description:	Nearly full-length seated portrait of a man with light brown hair and blue eyes in black formal attire with coat, vest, and tie of black and a white shirt. His right hand is raised and resting on a book, presumably the Bible, and his left hand rests on the arm of a red chair.
History:	Cooper confirmed by C. Stow of Cumberland Art Conservation March, 2004.
Notes:	Subject was minister of the First Vine St. Baptist Church and First Baptist Church. He began "The Baptist," the first Baptist oriented publication that evolved ultimately to spawn the Baptist Publishing House. His life in detailed in The Road to Augusta, by Joe W. Burton. The portrait is mentioned on p. 171 of that volume. A miniature of his wife, Mary Ann Martin Toy Howell, is also on this site.