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National Society of Colonial
Dames of
America in Tennessee
Portrait #101 |
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| Subject/Title: | Jones, Edward | |
| Artist: | Sully (?) | |
| Date Created: | ca. 1820 | |
| Owner/Location: | Private Collection | |
| Frame Dimensions: | 8.5 x 7.75 | |
| Image Dimensions: | 4 x 3.25 | |
| Materials/Media: | oil on ivory | |
| Date Documented: | 7/17/2003 | |
| Condition: | Good |
| Description: | Waist-length three-quarter right profile miniature of a an older man in a black, double-breasted overcoat, tan vest, and white necktie. His silver hair is parted in the middle, and he is surrounded by a soft blue and pink background suggestive of the sky. The work is framed under glass. |
| History: | Artist may be Sully, of New York, who was also a Charleson, SC miniaturist. |
| Notes: | Subject was born 1754 and died 1829. He is the owner's great-great-great-grandfather. |