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National Society of Colonial
Dames of
America in Tennessee
Belle Meade Plantation |
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Portrait
#1156 |
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| Subject/Title: |
Longfellow | |
| Artist: | Stewart Treviranus after Thomas S. Scott | |
| Date Created: | unknown | |
| Owner/Location: | Belle Meade Plantation 5025 Harding Road Nashville, TN 37205 website |
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| Frame Dimensions: | 18 1/4 x 22 1/4 | |
| Image Dimensions: | 12 3/4 x 18 | |
| Date Documented: | 16 November 2007 | |
| Materials/Media: | Oil on Canvas | |
| Condition: | Good | |
| Description: | Painting depicts the bay stallion Longfellow facing left in a field. There is a pale muted gray/blue sky with a pale green and tan muted foreground. Longfellow was a bay stallion with a star, stripe, and snip. He had a left hind sock to his fetlock and a right hind white coronet band. |
| History of Work: | Frame is a giltwood molding with brass plaque inscribed, “Longfellow/1867/Imp./Leamington-Nantura by Brawner’s Eclipse/Belle Meade.” Portrait is signed in lower right corner. Original By Thomas S. Scott who was a British artist who lived from 1854-1927. Copy of Work completed by Treviranus. |
| Notes: | Longfellow was by Leamington out of Nantura by Browner’s Eclipse. He was foaled in 1867. Location: East Side Hall |