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National Society of Colonial
Dames of
America in Tennessee
Portrait #1797  |
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| Subject/Title: | Wemyss, James Alexander | |
| Artist: | Cowan, Sarah E. | |
| Date Created: | 1850s | |
| Owner/Location: | Private Collection | |
| Frame Dimensions: | 32 x 28 | |
| Image Dimensions: | 24.25 x 20.25 | |
| Materials/Media: | Oil on canvas | |
| Date Documented: | 17 November 2008 | |
| Condition: | Good |
| Description: | Bust length frontal of a fairly young man in a formal-wear black coat, black vest, white shirt and black bow tie. |
| History of Work: | |
| Notes: | The subject's father emigrated from Scotland and fought with
the British in the Revolutionary War.
After the war he moved South to Alabama. James Wemyss,
the son, worked as a cotton broker in Mobile. During
the Civil War he was captain of an equestrian Confederate regiment and
was wounded. His first wife, Fannie Hatch #85, and
children died of diptheria. Later he married her
sister, Annie Hatch #83, who was ten years younger.
The couple had eleven children. After the War, the
carpetbaggers in Alabama became so objectionable to Wemyss that he
moved his family to the Gallatin area of
Tennessee. Their home was named Maple Shade. |