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Portrait
#555
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Subject/Title:
| Lawton, (Gen.) Alexander Robert |
Artist: | Brandt, Carl L. |
Date Created: | ca. 1870s |
Owner/Location: | Private Collection |
Frame Dimensions: | 37 x 29 |
Image Dimensions: | 28.5 x 22.5 |
Materials/Media: | oil on canvas |
Date Documented: | 11/29/2004 |
Condition: | Fair |
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Description: | Three-quarters right profile of a mature balding man with a full neatly coiffed grey beard. His head hair has retreated to over and above his ears. |
History of Work: | Signed and dated (unreadable) on lower left. |
Notes: | Subject was born in St. Peters Parish, Beaufort, SC 11/4/1818 and died 7/2/1896. The family entertained Robert E. Lee's daughter in Savannnah in 1870.
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