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Portrait
#1514
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Subject/Title:
| Watkins, Peter Wilson |
| Artist: | Ford, James Westhall |
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Created: | unknown |
| Owner/Location: | Private Collection |
| Frame Dimensions: | 43 x 34 1/2 |
| Image Dimensions: | 30 1/4 x 28 1/2 |
| Materials/Media: | Oil on canvas mounted on board |
| Date Documented: | July 2008 |
| Condition: | Excellent |
| Description: | Gentleman with curly black hair and blue eyes, wearing a black suit, white shirt, and black tie at the neckline, seated with a landscape backgound. |
| History of Work: | James Westhall Ford, 1805-1866, prominent American portrait painter in Virginia and friend of Thomas Jefferson.
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| Notes: | Subject was born 23 July 1816, married Louisa Hardyman Hairston 17 September 1844 and lived at Shawnee Plantation in Henry county, Virginia. He died at Shawnee Plantation 17 February 1890.
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