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Portrait #340
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| Subject/Title: | McGavock, (Gen.) Randal |
| Artist: | Dury, George (attrib.) |
| Date Created: | ca. 1863-64 |
| Owner/Location: | Private
Collection |
| Frame Dimensions: | 47 x 41 |
| Image Dimensions: | 29 x 23.5 |
| Materials/Media: | oil on canvas |
| Date Documented: | 3/18/2004 |
| Condition: | Fair |
| Description: | Waist-length oval of man in a CSA 3-star general's uniform. He has red hair and a full red beard. Subject is turned to hide the fact that his right ear had been cut off. |
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| Notes: | Subject was mayor of Nashville 1857-58. He lived for a time with Mr./Mrs. James K. Polk at their home at 7th Ave. & Union. He was married and left the next day for the war and died never to see his wife again. He was in his early 30s at the time of his
death.
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