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National Society of Colonial
Dames of
America in Tennessee
Portrait #9 Joseph Benjamin-large.jpg) |
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| Subject/Title: | Palmer, Joseph Benjamin | |
| Artist: | Unknown | |
| Date Created: | unknown | |
| Owner/Location: | Private Collection | |
| Frame Dimensions: | 48 x 40 | |
| Image Dimensions: | 28.5 x 35.5 | |
| Materials/Media: | oil on canvas | |
| Date Documented: | 4/26/2003 | |
| Condition: | Good |
| Description: | Waist-length seated frontal view of middle-aged man with prominent moustache in business attire. Both his hands are visible, pointing down. He ha a gold stickpin in the center of his white starched shirt. |
| History: | |
| Notes: | Subject lived in Murfreesboro and was a CSA general. His first wife was Ophelia Maria Burrus. Gen. Palmer married next Margaret J. Ballentine Mason, widow of William Taylor Mason. The owner has a biography of the subject--a book titled Joseph Benjamin Palmer. |