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National Society of Colonial
Dames of
America in Tennessee
Portrait #152 |
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| Subject/Title: | Overton, Jesse Maxwell 1863-1922 |
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| Artist: | Rouland, Walter Orlando | |
| Date Created: | 1926 April 26 | |
| Owner/Location: | Private Collection | |
| Frame Dimensions: | 31.5 x 24.5 | |
| Image Dimensions: | 36.5 x 29.5 | |
| Materials/Media: | oil on canvas | |
| Date Documented: | 5/5/2003 | |
| Condition: | Excellent |
| Description: | Waist-length three-quarter left profile of an older man in a grey 3-piece business suit; the jacket is open. He is wearing a white, rounded-collar shirt and a blue tie. A gold chain is attached to the second button on his vest. His eyes are bright blue and his hair is short and silver. |
| History: | Painted posthumously by the New York artist. Documentation attached to the back dates the piece exactly and indicates it cost $2,500.00 |
| Notes: | Subject was born 7/25/1863 in Pulaski, Tennessee and died 12/16/1922. More documentation in the file. See also #79 for subject as a young man. |