Portrait #555

Additional Details

  • 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
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  • Materials/Media:Oil on canvas
  • Date Documented:11/29/2004
  • Condition:Fair
  • 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: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.