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Portrait #145
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| Subject/Title: | Williams, Josiah Frederick |
| Artist: | MacKenzie, F. J. |
| Date Created: | 1929 |
| Owner/Location: | Private
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| Frame Dimensions: | 38 x 33 |
| Image Dimensions: | 29 x 24 |
| Materials/Media: | oil on canvas |
| Date Documented: | 7/14/2003 |
| Condition: | Good |
| Description: | Oval waist-length three-quarter right of a man with high cheekbones, and short dark brown hair parted over his right eye. He is wearing a black suit with vest and neck scarf and a starched white shirt which is puckered on the viewer's left side. His cheeks are ruddy and lined to suggest the man's thin frame. |
| History: | This work is a copy. |
| Notes: | Subject was born in 1776 in Halifax County, NC. He attended the Univ. of NC in 1801-02 (or 03) and then moved to Nashville. Her married Margaret Philips (see portrait #142) at her parent's home Sylvan Hall in March 1815. They built Maplewood on 1400 acres on Gallatin Pike. One of their grandchildren was Percy Warner. |
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