National Society of Colonial Dames of
America in Tennessee
Portrait #182
Subject/Title: Morris, David
Artist:Boudon, David 1748- c 1816
Date Created:1815 December
Owner/Location:Cheekwood Museum of Art
Nashville, TN
Frame Dimensions:NA
Image Dimensions:2 3/4" x 2 3/16"
Materials/Media:watercolor on ivory
Date Documented:2/22/2004
Condition:Good
Description:Original rectangular gilded wood with black painted spandrels and gilded band around picture.

Young man with auburn hair in blue overcoat in three-quarter right view. Subject is looking hard right also.

Three-quarter view, which is unusual for Boudon since over half of his works are profiles. Signed on paper inside fram "DdBoudon Fecit / Ddbr 1815"/
History:Slight restoration on frame by Katherine Eirk.

Probably painted near Wheeling, (West) Virginia

Exhibited at Huntsville 1996; Gibbes 2000

Illustrated in Huntsville Catalog
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